File Restore
To restore files from file backup restore points, please go to Physical Backup > File Backup > Restore page. There are 4 steps to restore files from the file backup restore points.
Step 1: Restore Point
First you need to select a backup agent and a desired restore point from the Select Restore Point column. Then select the desired files/folders from the Restore Source column. You can choose select directories and search under selected directories for more precise and efficient recovery to save your time.
When done selecting files/folders, click on Next button to continue.
Notice
If the file backup data had been encrypted, when selecting the restore point, you’ll be asked to provide the encryption password. Only if you provide the correct encryption password then you can continue to restore the files with the encrypted file backups.
Step 2: Restore Destination
First you need to specify the destination for the selected files/folders to be restored to File server, NAS server or Object Storage. Then please select the backup agent. You can search agent name for quick match selection. If the Restore Path is selected as “Manually select path”, check the specified disk/folder to restore the data to the corresponding path. As shown in the figure below, hover the mouse over ‘(C:)’ and click the ‘+’ on the right can create a new folder.
The defult name of the new folder is “recovery-destination1”, which can be modified or deleted. For windows system, the file name cannot contain ‘< > / \ | : * ?’.
If the Restore Path is selected as “Recover to the original path”, the data will be overwritten and restored to the original path, all files with the same name under the original path will be overwritten and restored, and the newly created files will be kept unmodified. Then please click on Next to continue.
Notice
Only when the recovery source and destination are of the same operating system can the recovery path be selected as ‘Restore to the original path’.
Step 3: Restore Strategy
General Strategy
It including Throttling Policy and Advanced Strategy. Similar to File backup, the throttling policy is optional, it is used to limit the transmission speed of File restore. And in Advanced Strategy, you can set 1 to 32 transfer threads for a single File restore job.
Transmission Strategy
When multiple networks are configured, users should choose a network to backup, the premise is that the network is connected to the file server.
When the network fluctuates, users can reconnect to the current network by setting the number of Retry Attempts and Retry interval to reduce the factors that cause job failures due to network fluctuations.
Users can configure transmission options for file backup. If you enable the Encrypted Transfer, backup data will be transferred through RSA encryption algorithm.
Advanced Strategy
There are four ways to Handle Same-name Files: Overwrite, Keep Latest, Add, Rename.
Overwrite: Overwrite the existing file data during recovery.
Keep Latest: Only recovers files with the most recent modification time.
Add: Only recovers files that are not already present.
Rename: For existing files, creates a new file with a similar name. For non-existing files, restores them directly.
If the Invalid Shortcut Cleanup is enabled, symbolic links/shortcuts without link targets will not be restored. When a file has a symbolic link object and is also a symbolic link, the symbolic link may be cleared.
If the File Permission Recovery is enabled, the files with backed-up permissions will be restored according to the permissions at the time of the backup. All abnormal files/directories in permission recovery are recorded in the skip file list. When restoring permissions, the user account will be checked to see if the target user exists.
Step 4: Review & Confirm
After finishing the above settings, you are able to review and confirm all settings here. Click Submit to confirm creating this job.
Once the job has been created, you’ll be redirected to the Monitor Center > Jobs page.
As the file restore job is by default to be executed right after the creation of the job, so it will run automatically, when you see it in the current job list, it should be in running status already, and once completed, the job will be automatically deleted from the current job list.
After this you can browse the restored files/folders from the selected file server/NAS server and the selected path.