AWS EC2 Instance Granular Restore
Create Granular Restore Job
Granular Instance Restore feature allows you to recover files or folders directly from the EC2 instance backup restore point, you don’t have to restore the entire instance for the purpose of recovering some files.
To create a granular instance restore job, please go to Data Resilience > Public Cloud>Restore > Granular Restore page. Please follow the below steps to create the job.
Step 1. Select Restore Point
Select a desired restore point of the instance from which you can restore the target files (according to the time when the backup was taken), then click on Next to continue.
If the instance backup data had been encrypted, please provide the encryption password in the Data Encryption Password field and click on Verify button to verify the validity of the password, when you receive the "Password verification success" message, please click on Next to continue.
Step 2. Select Restore Strategy
General Strategy
For Operating system type, you should select the operating system type corresponding to the restore point, either Linux or Windows.
Security Strategy
For Malware Scan, different virus scanning strategies can be configured based on the different states of the restore points.
Unscanned restore point: If the restore point has not undergone virus scanning, you can choose to directly restore the restore point here, or perform the scan according to the settings.
Health restore point: You can choose to directly restore the restore point, or perform a re-scan according to the settings.
Infected restore point: If the restore point has been infected, direct restoration may result in virus infection. At this time, you can choose to restore directly, restore after virus removal, or re-scan the backup point.
For Integrity Check, you can configure Interrupt recovery or Continue recovery when facing integrity check anomalies.
Advanced Strategy
By enabling Ignore Node Resource Limits, If resource limitations are set on the backup node, for jobs with higher running priority, this setting can be enabled to bypass the node's resource limitations.
Step 3. Review and Confirm Job Settings
When a granular restore job is created, you will be redirected to Monitor Center > Jobs page, the instance granular restore job will be in "Pending" state, please click on Options and select Start Job to run this job.
It will take a few seconds to prepare the entire filesystem of the instance using the backup data within Vinchin backup repository. The whole process is done internally within Vinchin Backup & Recovery, no interaction with the cloud platform required.
When the job status changed to Running state, click on the job name you can get started to browse the instance filesystem and retrieve the files you wish to restore.
There are three recovery methods to restore the specified files including Web download , Client transfer and Network sharing.
For Web Download, you can enter the directory, select the file or directory you want to download, and click the Download button.Hover your mouse over the folder you want to search and click the search icon to search for the file you want to download by its name.
When located the target files or folders, please click on the download icon to download the files/folders to your desktop. If it's an individual file, it will be downloaded directly, if it's a folder, the folder will be packed and downloaded as a .tar.gz package. To decompress this package on Windows system, please use WinRAR, 7-Zip, WinZip, etc. If you need to upload this package to a Linux machine, after uploading please use the below command to decompress the package.
tar -xzf filename.tar.gz
For Client transfer, you can select the file or directory you want to download, click the Client Transfer, and then configure the client transfer settings .
Please make sure that you have installed the agent on the target client.
Select the target client and the corresponding path will display, you can select specified folder to store the files or by hovering the mouse over the folder and clicking + icon, you can create a new folder to store.
You can rename, edit, delete this new folder or create new folder under it.
After setting these configuration, click OK to create the transfer job.
Click Transfer/Share job, you can manage the transfer job you have created.
For Network sharing, you can select a folder you want to share and then set the sharing configuration.
By clicking Configure access address, you can restrict sharing resource access permission by IP.
Set the username and password that will only be used in this network sharing session. Click OK to complete the configuration and create the sharing job.
Click Transfer/Share job, you can manage the share job you have created.
By clicking + button nearby the shared path, you can see mount command for different platform. Copy the command you need to the target client and enter the correct username and password, and then you can view the selected files.
Transfer/Share job is used to manage all the details of transfer or Share job, you can stop or delete them.
Notice
Once you have done retrieving the files, please stop the granular restore job. As if the granular restore job keeps running, certain system resources will always be occupied. And if the job is no longer needed, you can also delete the job from the current job list when it's been stopped.