Huawei Cloud ECS Instance Granular Restore

Create Granular Restore Job

Granular Instance Restore feature allows you to recover files or folders directly from the ECS 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.

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), optionally change the job name and then click on OK to create a granular restore job for the instance.

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 OK to create the job.

Restore Files

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.