This recipe covers how to restore a single file from a protected virtual machine using ILR.
As mentioned previously, DPM supports ILR, which allows you to perform a specific recovery of files, folders, and virtual hard disks from a host-level backup of Hyper-V virtual machines to a network share or a volume on a DPM protected server. The DPM agent doesn't have to be installed on the guest operating system of the virtual machine to perform Item-Level Recovery.
- Open the DPM Administrator Console, and go to the
Recovery
task view.Browse
orSearch
for the data you want to recover:
- In the
Recovery points
section, select the data. Available recovery points are indicated in bold on the calendar in the recovery points section. Select the bold date for the recovery point you want to recover. - In the
Recoverable Item
pane, double-click on the recoverable item you want to recover, and then keep double-clicking the VHD or...