Server Granular Restore

Individual files can be restored directly from the restore point without restoring the entire server, achieving precise and rapid recovery.

Create Granular Restore Job

To create a server granular restore job, please go to Data Resilience > Server Restore> Granular Restore page. Please follow the below steps to create the job.

Step 1. Select Restore Point

Select a desired restore point from the restore point dropdown list and click Next to continue.

The restore point can be full, incremental or differential depending on which backup method you applied for server backup.

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

For Overload Protection, you can enable Ignore Node Resource Limits to bypass the node's resource limitations.

After completing the above settings, you can click Next to continue.

Step 3. Review and Confirm Job Settings

You are able to review and confirm all settings here. Click on Submit to confirm creating this job. When the job is created, you will be redirected to the Monitor Center > Jobs page.

Running Granular Restore job

Click Options and start this Granular Restore job, it will take a few seconds to prepare.

When the job status changed to Running state, click on the job name you can get started to browse the 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.

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.