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Recovering files from virtual machine backups

You can recover files from host-level backups and host-level backup copies of Windows and Linux VMs. Recovery procedures can be run from the backup appliance or from the backup copy target appliance. File recovery is supported for VMware, Hyper-V, and XenServer host-level backups of Windows and Linux VMs.

Recovering from a local backup or imported backup copy involves creating a recovery object on the backup appliance that contains files from the backup. You recover files by downloading directly from this object or by mounting the object to a recovery target machine. A single file-level recovery can be performed on multiple VMs simultaneously.
Recovering directly from a backup copy that resides on a target appliance or resides in the Unitrends Cloud involves creating a recovery object on the target appliance or in the Unitrends Cloud.
If you run the recovery from the source backup appliance, selected files are downloaded as a .zip file to the default download location of the browser where the source appliance UI is running.
If you run the recovery from the backup copy target appliance, you recover files by downloading directly from the object or by mounting the object to a recovery target machine.

Note:  A 500MB size limit applies to the download to .zip file method. The total size of the file(s) you download in one recovery cannot exceed 500MB. To recover multiple files that are less than 500MB each, you can run separate recovery procedures to ensure that the download size does not exceed this 500MB limit. To recover larger files, you must mount the recovery object to a target machine instead.