When to use "Enable guest file system indexing"?

[Squeezer]

When would I want to use the "Enable guest file system indexing" option in the Guest Processing tab of a backup? Normally when a user cannot file a file or folder on one of the servers they tell me the location of the missing data, and I can select a Guest Files restore and navigate the folder structure to find the missing files or folders for the user.

The guest file system indexing description says it allows me to perform 1 click restores or individual files, but I'm not seeing where I would click to perform a 1-click restore. Would that be located under the Files tab in the bottom left of the console? If so, it appears I will have to manually add all of my windows servers to the Managed Servers in the Backup Infrastructure tab before the servers will be listed in the Files tab. Am I correct? The only servers listed in the Files tab are my Hyper-V host servers and no VMs are listed under Microsoft Windows. I am using Veeam Backup 7 R2 for Hyper-V.

[veremin]

Normally, you would enable "Guest Index Processing", if you're going to use Enterprise Manager in order to restore granular user data. 1-click restore is also the functionality available in the Enterprise Manager. More information can be found in the corresponding section of our Help Center.

Thanks.

[Vitaliy S.]

You're lucky if your users know what directory their file was located at... usually it is not the case.

[dellock6]

Well, also because if it's a file servers, users can tell you they lost the file in P:\folder\file.doc for example, but that is a mapped network drive and in your server maybe that file is in d:\shares\business-unit\file.doc.

Sometimes even "lusers" are right

Luca.