This is indeed a good question, and if previously I would have had some doubt about the correct answer, other than going through the event viewer myself and learn about the different Event IDs, I’ve learned a few days ago a way better answer: Veeam technical writing team has just created a new document, where all the Veeam events are listed, divided by category. Or again, these events can be collected centrally using one of the many existing solutions able to do so.
#Veeam backup for windows windows#
One of them is via the the Windows Event Log since the Veeam backup server is a Windows software, each event is registered in Veeam logs, but also in the Windows Event Log:Īs you can see in this screenshot coming from an installation of Veeam Backup & Replication v9.5 in a Windows 2012 R2 server, a new section is created specifically for Veeam Backup, and here different administrators can go and look at events, filter them, and search through them. This is a sound request, and in order to do so there are different possible ways. Many users of Veeam Backup & Replication have also acquired Veeam ONE as their monitoring and reporting solution, but many have already some existing monitoring solution in their datacenters, and they’d prefer to monitor Veeam together with other systems and applications using their own unified solution. For this particular backup server containing 7200RPM direct attached storage in RAID 5, it took 30 minutes to recover a 150GB file.0 Flares Twitter 0 Facebook 0 LinkedIn 0 Email - 0 Flares ×
To put some perspective on how quickly the file was restored, the 165.1KB file took about 30 seconds to restore. The speed of the recovery process will depend on the resources provisioned to the backup server as well as the size of the file(s). Next, a window will appear with a handful of statistics displaying the original location, the final location, time elapsed, time remaining, bytes transferred, and the transfer rate.
If the file needed to be overwritten with an older version, I could have chosen to use the Restore option. To accommodate the user, I used the Copy To option and copied the file to a new location, renamed the file, then gave it to the user. In this particular case, the person needing the restored file needed to compare the older version of the excel file with the most recent version. However, had I needed, I could have entire folders as well. In this case I navigated directly to the folder and selected the excel file I needed to restore. Once Veeam has completed mounting the backup, a Windows Explorer type window will appear. Veeam will then begin mounting the backup. As a general rule, I list out the location of the restored file(s) or folder(s). It is always a good idea to give a descriptive reason to be able to have an accurate history of events, particularly if you have multiple administrators. On the next menu, you will be asked to provide a reason to restore any files. On the next menu, select the desired restore point. Right click on the desired and Select Restore guest files (Windows) In the example, I navigated to my Backups, selected Disk, and expand the job containing the VM. In the example below, I need to recover an excel file that was overwritten the day before. The Veeam B&R UI provides a number of ways to be able to select and restore files from a Windows system.
#Veeam backup for windows how to#
This article shows how to use the Restore guest file (Windows) feature and the ease of use. Fortunately, Veeam Backup and Replication provides excellent recovery time objectives and can provide granular recovery point objectives. For traditional backup method, recovery can be a tedious and time consuming process. One of the more common worries of many IT administrators utilizing file servers is that their end users have the potential to overwrite or delete shared files.
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