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File Level Restore of Bitlocker volume

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Hi All,

One of our servers has a volume encrypted by Bitlocker and I am unable to use file level restore on it.

At the moment I have to do a instant recovery get into Windows and copy the file out.

Is there a way for Veeam to prompt for Bitlocker key from the file level restore wizard?
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Re: File Level Restore of Bitlocker volume

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I'd say this depends on how you backed it up. For the encrypted volume you might be better selecting 'File Level Backup' as your 'Backup Mode'. That's instead of backing up a volume image.

With a file level backup there will be individual files accessible during restore. You could then encrypt that backup (if you aren't encrypting them all anyway?) to replace the bit-locker encryption so it stays encrypted on the backup as well as the source.
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Re: File Level Restore of Bitlocker volume

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In short, it's not possible currently. Here's another post on this topic veeam-backup-replication-f2/vbr-9-5-and ... 45444.html

It would be a nice feature, though, to prompt for the recovery key when opening the disk in Veeam File Explorer.
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