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 Cloud Backup > 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.

In the Granular Restore File List section, you can also organize the file list by system directories structure and physical disk device as per your convenience. If needed you can also search the target files by specify the file name in the search box.

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 -xvf filename.tar.gz

Notice

Once you had 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.