NetBackup™ Web UI VMware Administrator's Guide
- Managing VMware servers
- Add VMware servers
- Validate and update VMware server credentials
- Browse VMware servers
- Remove VMware servers
- Create an intelligent VM group
- Remove an intelligent VM group
- Add a VMware access host
- Remove a VMware access host
- Change resource limits for VMware resource types
- About VMware discovery
- Change the autodiscovery frequency of VMware assets
- Discover VMware server assets manually
- Protecting VMs
- Malware scan
- Instant access
- Instant rollback
- Continuous data protection
- CDP terminology
- CDP architecture
- About continuous data protection
- Prerequisites
- Capacity-based licensing for CDP
- Steps to configure CDP
- Removing VMs from the CDP gateway
- Defining the CDP gateway
- Sizing considerations
- Limiting concurrent CDP backup jobs
- Controlling full sync
- Monitoring CDP jobs
- Using accelerators with CDP
- Recovering CDP protected VMs
- Some limitations of CDP
- Troubleshooting for CDP
- VM recovery
- Protecting VMs using hardware snapshot and replication
- About virtual machines and hardware snapshots
- Deployment and architecture
- Features and applications supported
- Prerequisites for hardware snapshot and replication
- Operations supported with hardware snapshot
- Configuring a VMware policy to use hardware snapshot
- Configuring a VMware policy to use NetBackup snapshot manager replication
- Jobs in the Activity Monitor that use hardware snapshot for VMs
- Notes and limitations
- Troubleshooting with VMware hardware snapshot and replication operations
- Troubleshooting VMware operations
Restore files and folders from a VM backup image
You can browse an instant access image of the VM to restore files and folders.
Note:
More information on using instance access VMs is available:
See Things to consider before you use the instant access feature.
To restore files and folders from a VM backup image
- On the left, click VMware.
- Locate and click on the VM.
- Click the Recovery points tab. In the calendar view, click the date on which the backup occurred.
The available images are listed in rows with the backup timestamp for each image.
- Select the Allow the selection of recovery of points that are malware-affected to be able to recover malware affected images. This option is only available for the recovery points which contains malware-affected images.
Note:
This option is enabled only for users with the necessary RBAC role or related RBAC permissions.
- On the image or the copy of the image that has the option to recover using instant access, click Recover > Restore files and folders.
NetBackup creates an instant access mount point in the background.
- Select the files and click Add to restore list.
Click on a folder to drill into it. Use the folder path to navigate back to higher levels in the hierarchy.
Enter a file name to search for files.
The restore list displays the selected files and folders with the location and size of each file.
Select the restore options:
Restore everything to the original directory
Enter the name of the target VM (the default is the original VM) and the username and password for the target VM.
Restore everything to a different directory
In Directory for restore, enter the destination path for restore.
Note:
If the storage server is NetBackup 8.1.2, enter the
Single File Full Pathand not theParent Folder Path.Select the Flatten existing directory structure check box to restore all files to a single directory.
Note:
If the storage server is NetBackup 8.1.2, this option is automatically used during restore.
Enter the name of the target VM (the default is the original VM) and the username and password for the target VM.
- Select the Overwrite existing files check box to overwrite all the existing files.
Note:
If the storage server is NetBackup 8.1.2, this option is automatically used during restore.
A summary of your selections is displayed.
- Click Start recovery to restore the files.
The Activity tab displays the status of the recovery.
