Q on Veeam Extract Utility

[ejenner]

I have lost the primary backup (temporarily I hope) after a NAS box stopped working.

I have a secondary copy of the files stored on another NAS box and just wondered, if I try to use it against a 30TB file what sort of performance I'm going to see? I realise that's potentially an open-ended question but I'm really asking what is the utility trying to do? Is it going to open the 30TB file and write the contents to the target folder or what is the process it's performing. All I can see in the status is that it's been restoring one file for 30 minutes and written 17mb to disk? It has now started the second file which is 33tb.

I'm also wondering if the system the extract utility is running on has to be running and logged in for the extract utility to work? i.e. if the session is logged off automatically due to a timeout does that stop the extract utility? I guess it would.

[Mildur]

The veeam extract utility doesn't run as a service or background process. Your user needs to be logged in the entire time, when the extract utility needs to run.
Performance will mostly depend on read throughput from the nas to your server/computer and write throughput to the target location. If the backup is encrypted, it needs to be decrypted which will take longer to export the vm files.

[ejenner]

I think it's becoming clear under the circumstances this isn't practically usable. According to rough calculations it might take 7 days to extract this file the process doesn't fail because it ran out of space or one of the systems rebooted.

I was hoping it could offer a list of files much like the guest file restore functionality.

[Gostev]

This is really not want extract tool is designed for... its only goal is to ensure your data is never a "hostage" of the proprietary Veeam backup format.
If you want to do granular recoveries, why not quickly install Veeam Backup & Replication and simply import those backups?

[ejenner]

I'll try and import it and see what happens. I went straight to the extractor as I was worried about the state of the files I have. BTW the extractor has to be forcibly closed from the Task Manager if it is part way through restoring a file.

[ejenner]

I've got the file imported to Veeam as there was a .VBM and two .VIB files so it's incomplete so luckily it was still usable. There are 50 increments showing in the import but I doubt whether any of them would work so I've been restoring from the .VBK