How to restore files and folders from an Agent less backup?

Hi Siva,

Just wanted to make sure, you clicked the 'Browse for Granular restore' button, right ?

I am not sure about that button.  Could you tell me where I can find it?  If possible please send a picture.

The button is located directly above the contents pane of the backup in 'Select for Restore' Window.

Please refer to Page 89 on this document :

https://support.emc.com/docu39192_Avamar-6.1-for-VMware-User-Guide.pdf?language=en_US

I just want to note that your Linux server has to be configured in the list of allowed types that would let you do a File Level restore.

Some configurations will not allow you to do a File Leve restore.

File-level restore limitations

The following limitations apply to file-level restore as described in “Restoring specific

folders or files” on page 86:

◆ The following virtual disk configurations are not supported:

• Unformatted disks

• Dynamic disks

• GUID Partition Table (GPT) disks

• Ext4 filesystems

• FAT16 filesystems

• FAT32 filesystems

• Extended partitions (that is, any virtual disk with more than one partition or when two or more virtual disks are mapped to single partition)

• Encrypted partitions

• Compressed partitions

◆ Symbolic links cannot be restored or browsed

◆ You cannot restore more than 5,000 folders or files in the same restore operation

◆ The following limitations apply to logical volumes managed by Logical Volume Manager (LVM):

• One Physical Volume (.vmdk) must be mapped to exactly one logical volume

• Only ext2 and ext3 formatting is supported

Yes, Sudeep!  I never saw that button before.  How can we do this functionality using mccli.  In the mcli programming guide page# 44 there is an example.  I think this will help me?

The following example restores selected folders and files to a different existing virtual

machine:

mccli backup restore --name=/Test/Test1 --labelNum=1 --plugin=3019

--restore-vm-to=flr --dest-client-name=Test5

--dest-client-domain=/Test/Test1

--dest-client-username=Administrator --data=C:\\1.log

--dest-dir=C:\\ --dest-client-password=abcdefgh

What are the plugins numbers to use for a Linux file level restore for file level and image level restore?

Thanks J.H for the infomation.  Good to know those limitation before than breaking my head later.

glad you got it to work,  none of my linux boxes can do a FLR.

Not there yet, still trying..  track it here... https://community.emc.com/thread/165325?tstart=0

Hello everybody

When I am trying to do Granular Restore from a Linux Image Level backup, I am getting an error "Extended Partitions are not Allowed". Can Anybody help me on this.

What is the filesystem on the disk you are trying to restore from?  Does it contain only one partition or multiple partitions?  On the surface, this sounds like a documented limitation (see post 4 above or the docs on support.emc.com).

you hit the same problem I have.  I cannot restore my Linux VM at the FLR level.

I have to backup the Linux VM's as vm's once a week just so I can restore the whole thing if needed ( with a short retention)

then I have to back them up as physical servers by installing the Avamar client on them, and doing a normal client backup.