Guest File restore : Restore to another Location ?

[FCa]

Hello,

This topic may look stupid, but i wanted to proceed to a Guest level restore and was surprised that the only available options are "Keep" or "Overwrite".

Isn't there a way to restore to another location ?

Sometime you may haven't space enough to keep original datas on your FS, but you just don't want to overwrite all.
Having the possibility to restore to another location would be great.

The only workaround i found is to restore localy on my Veeam B&R and then SCP the restore to the server.....

Do i miss something ?

[FCa]

Oh... my bad..
i've just seen this topic => Feature Request - VEEAM Enterprise Portal Selfrestore


It seems i'm not the only one who want/need this feature.

You can merge this post to the other & delete this one

[Dima P.]

Hello Fabien.

It's true that you cannot perform file level recovery to another VM, I've added your vote to this feature request. It's possible to restore files to a different location within the same VM: just use the Copy to option instead of restore. Cheers!

[isolated_1]

Hi Dima. Could you please reiterate how to restore/copy files via a file level recovery to another folder within the same VM? You said to use the Copy To option instead of Restore but that only allows me to copy the files to my local Veeam backup machine, not to a new location within the VM I am restoring from.

[Dima P.]

Simon,

For FLR in Veeam B&R Copy to will place files in local directory of server, however you can point restore to a shared folder, this could be an admin share or specifically created (or shared) for the restore. For some reason was referring to File level recovery from Veeam Agent for Windows, where Copy to restores files to a different folder within the same machine.

[FCa]

Hi Dima,

Thank's for your reply.

Unfortunately, there's still no way to simply restore, for example, "C:\documents & settings\" from the XYZ vm to "C:\documents & settings_restore\" always on the XYZ vm.

This feature would be great and could help a lot when your customer just want to compare the content of a directory with a previous backuped one.


PS : Currently, on Linux i have to use the FLR's FTP feature if i want to perform such restore. On windows, there's a real lack for this.

[jessie0]

Hello.

I am also experiencing the same issue here. I am unable to restore files to a different location using the "copy to" option, other than the local server on which VB&R runs. This problem is the same across my windows, Linux VM and physical server running Windows server 2019.
Just wondering if any one or Admin has been able to fix this problem.

Thanks.

[jessie0]

Hello FCa,

Please guide me on how to use the FLR's FTP feature to restore files to a different location in Linux.

Thanks.

[veremin]

- Enable FTP server on an FLR appliance
- Connect to it via whatever tool you want to (any tool supporting FTP can be a way to go)
- Copy, paste files

Thanks!

[jessie0]

Hello,

Thank you for the response.
Will look it up.

[jessie0]

Hello Veremin,

Thanks to your help, I was able to successfully restore files to a different location in my Linux machine.

One question though, I know it has been raised previously but is there now a way to restore files to a different location in windows?

Thanks.

[foggy]

There always has been an opportunity to save the restored files to some other location. Or do you mean something different?

[jessie0]

Hello Foggy,

Thanks for your response and the link.
Yes I meant something different. My understanding is that according to the link you sent me, one can either restore to the original location of the file or directory in your Windows VM or physical machine but the only other option is to restore to the Veeam Backup and Replication server.

I want to be able to restore files backed up from say a directory in my C:\ drive to a different location, say a directory in my D:\ drive of the same machine, not to the VB&R server.

Thanks.

[FCa]

Hello,

I'm still surprised this function still not has been implemented on Veeam B&R.

As mentioned previously, sometimes, you need (because the customers asks) to restore some customer's Data to another drive on the same Customer's VM.

Example , customer has some pbs with C:\users\* directories, but can't tell you exactly all directories involved. He wants to compare current with the restore.

He has no space enough to restore & keep existing datas (and he doesn't want to clean it all after the check). He also made plenty modification since the last backup so he wants you to restore all on a "D:\restore-temp" he specially created to get all datas, you can't erase currents datas.

This is a quite basic restore function, but currently, we just can't do it without asking him to create a shared folder on the D:\restore-temp.

Isn't there a way to add this possibility during restore ?

[foggy]

Yes I meant something different. My understanding is that according to the link you sent me, one can either restore to the original location of the file or directory in your Windows VM or physical machine but the only other option is to restore to the Veeam Backup and Replication server.

You can restore to any other server as well, but as Fabien has mentioned, the location should be available on the network as a CIFS share.

[bytewiseits]

Having the option to restore to an alternate folder location on the original VM would be a very welcome feature. Sometimes using the workaround of copying via SMB is just not possible, especially if the VM has been hardened/SMB blocked/firewalled etc. It can also be much slower, especially if there are alot of smaller files.

Instead of restoring to the original folder location, the restored data could just be redirected to the specified folder/path within the original VM via the guest worker service restoring the data.

Can we please have this added/updated as a feature request for future versions? (ie a 'Restore To' option in addition to the 'Copy To' option)

[foggy]

Hi Dion, thanks for your voice and the reasoning - we keep tracking requests in this and other similar threads.

[mcalton]

I vote for this feature as well. I need to refresh data from a backup of a PRD server to a UAT server and there is currently no way to do this re-directed restore in Veeam 9.5 Update 4.

[EdgarRicharte]

I vote for this feature as well. It is always a pain to restore files that customer wants copies of but still wants the original.

[Gostev]

Hi Edgar, what about simply restoring them with "Keep" option?

[EdgarRicharte]

@gostev That option works great with smaller files. But we have clients who want entire folder directories and want to compare the original to the backup. Harder to do when it is several TB's.

[SteelContainer]

+1 for a 'restore to' option.
Another option is to utilize the data labs to access restore point data through the lab proxy appliance, but this can be a pain to setup if you don't already have a lab configured and need to recover data urgently.

[JOSchi]

Hi, I' m also missing this feature.
My workaround for restoring files in another Location to the same VM is to rename the original Folder in [foldername].old and to restore necessary files to the former "original location". So I have the files with correct NTFS-Access-Permissions on the original VM and do not need any SMB-Shares or FTP-accounts or don't have to pay attention to any firewall restrictions.

Perhaps this may help somebody.

brgds
joschi

[Maineiac15]

This feature would be nice. Just moved to Veeam because it did everything our old software would do but then some. However this is the only thing so far that goes the other way.

We have a server that has a live db directory and a training db directory. d:\live\files and d:\training\files. To refresh the training db with live data we would just restore the d:\live directory to the d:\training directory. Cannot do that so easily anymore.

[Gostev]

We're adding this capability to V12.

[JaySt]

oh man, this feature would be appreciated so much by many customers.

[s2cbackup]

I'm on V12 Back & Replication, and I'm not seeing this option; it either KEEP or Overwrite. We are moving a lot of data and need a process like "Purge" in RichCopy that can delete files that do not exist in the backup file and add new files to the destination server. This extremely valuable function can be used to limit downtime while going live from a new server.
For example, an Overwrite can take 12 hours. Keep causes more work all around, but a Purge can sync the data in 1 hour. This can be the difference between keeping clients and losing clients.

[Gostev]

Strange you're not seeing it. Can you share a screenshot of the right-click menu?

[s2cbackup]

Hi Gostev

I did figure out a workaround based on someone else's post. You can RDP from the Destination, and in RDP, share options and "Drives." From the RDP session, you can "Copy To" a
\\tsclient\ drive. But I'm not sure the "Copy To" will Purge the files that are no longer on the Source.

[s2cbackup]

PS Both servers are in my Veeam Inventory