How to Use Granular Restore to Quickly Extract Files from XCP-ng VM Backup?

How to Use Granular Restore to Quickly Extract Files from XCP-ng VM Backup in Vinchin Backup & Recovery?

You will learn how to perform granular restore of XCP-ng VM backups with Vinchin Backup & Recovery in 3 steps here. Vinchin seamlessly supports XCP-ng 8.2, 8.1, 8.0, 7.6, 7.5, 7.4, ensuring high efficiency in VM backup, whether in a standalone XCP-ng Hypervisor host or a pool environment.

Vinchin Backup & Recovery provides granular restore feature to search and recover target files or specific folders instead of the entire XCP-ng VM, fixing partial soft breakdown on point, and helps to find target files back by recovering XCP-ng VM to any restore point before mistaken deletion. Being full independent, no impact will be made on the scheduled full XCP-ng backups if you boot granular restore when critical files are urgently needed.

Before extracting files, you need to have an XCP-ng VM backup created by Vinchin Backup & Recovery.

Let’s open a browser and log in Vinchin Backup & Recovery server web console.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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