How to Use Granular Restore to Quickly Extract Files from Amazon EC2 Instance Backup with Vinchin Backup & Recovery?

Vinchin Backup & Recovery is also able to perform data recovery at file level. You can restore specific folders or files saved in a restore point to the production host using Vinchin Granular Restore. In case you mistakenly delete some files, this feature will help quickly retrieve certain files you want without needing to recover the whole virtual machine.

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Updated by Iris Lee on 2024/09/24

You will learn how to perform granular restore of Amazon EC2 instance backups with Vinchin Backup & Recovery in 3 steps here. With a comprehensive suite of built-in advanced backup and restore features, Vinchin provides the most user-friendly, fully functional, and cost-optimized cloud data protection solution, ensuring the security of your mission-critical business data in the cloud.

Vinchin Backup & Recovery is also able to perform data recovery at file level. You can restore specific folders or files saved in a restore point to the production host using Vinchin Granular Restore. In case you mistakenly delete some files, this feature will help quickly retrieve certain files you want without needing to recover the whole virtual machine.

Before that, you should have an EC2 instance backup created by Vinchin Backup & Recovery.

let’t open a browser and log in Vinchin Backup & Recovery server web console.

1. Go to Cloud Backup > Restore > Granular Restore. Select one restore point of AWS for granular restore. Here you can specify a customized job name if needed.

Granular restore of Amazon EC2 instance backups

2. Click on Options and Start Job to run this job.

Granular restore of Amazon EC2 instance backups

Wait for a while, You will see it’s finished. Now you can preview the files on the right side of the screen and get the ones you need.

Granular restore of Amazon EC2 instance backups

3. Just click the download button on the right side to download the files or folders to the local machine.

And you will got these files on your computer.

Granular restore of Amazon EC2 instance backups

After that, just stop this job to avoid wasting resources.

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