Granular Restore for ZStack

Create Granular Restore Job

Granular Restore feature allows you to recover files or folders from the VM backup restore point, you don’t have to restore the entire virtual machine for the purpose of recovering some files. To create a granular restore job, please go to VM Backup > Restore > Granular Restore page, you will see all the available restore points under ZStack.

Select one ZStack restore point where you can find your target file. The restore point can be a full, an incremental or a differential restore point. When done selecting the restore point, you may rename the granular restore job if necessary, then click on OK button to submit.

Granular Restore Job Operations

Once you finished creating the granular restore job, you’ll be redirected to the Monitor Center > Jobs page. The newly created granular restore job will be listed in the current job list in pending status.

To run the granular restore job, please click on Options, then select Start Job. And the job status will change into preparing. The preparation process will take several seconds to several minutes depending on the VM size and the performance of Vinchin Backup Server hardware. After this, the status will change to running.

When you get running status, please click on the job name to browse the file list of the VM.

In the Granular Restore File List column, you are able to retrieve the desired files or folders. You can also organize the file list by system directory structure, physical disk device and LVM as per your convenience. Enter the target directory, find the target files or folders and click on the download button to download.

The downloaded files will be in the original format, while the downloaded folders will be a .tar.gz package, use the below command to decompress the package then you get all files of the target folder.

tar –zxvf foldername.tar.gz

Notice

Once you have done retrieving the files, please return to current job list, and 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.