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Restoring individual directories and files on a VM or BareMetal server

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Yandex Cloud
Updated at March 6, 2025

You can restore individual files and directories from a backup to any VM or BareMetal server in the Running status connected to Cloud Backup:

Management console
  1. In the management console, select the folder where the backup is located.

  2. From the list of services, select Cloud Backup.

  3. In the left-hand panel, select Backups.

  4. Depending on the resource you want to recover files and directories for, select the Virtual machines or BareMetal servers tab.

  5. Select the backup to restore individual files or directories from.

  6. In the file manager that opens, select the files and directories you want to restore.

  7. In the bottom panel, click Add to list of files to be recovered.

  8. Add all files and directories you want to restore, one by one, to the To recover list.

  9. Click Recover files, and in the window that opens:

    • Select a VM or BareMetal server to recover the files and directories to.

      Note

      Make sure the VM or BareMetal server you are recovering the files and directories to is connected to Cloud Backup.

    • (Optional, VMs only) Specify whether to reboot the VM following recovery.

    • Select a location to restore the files to:

      • Original: Restore the files to their original directories.

      • Custom: Restore the files to a user-defined directory.

        For custom location, in the file manager that opens, select the directory to restore the files to.

        To create a new directory, click Create and specify its name.

        Note

        A directory name may not contain the following characters: \, /, :, *, ?, ", ', <, >, |.

  10. Select an action to perform when file names from a backup match file names on a VM or BareMetal server:

    • Overwrite all files in folder.
    • Overwrite only existing files.
    • Do not overwrite files: Files that are not in the source directory will not be written either.
  11. Click Restore.

You can check the progress of file recovery on the Operations tab in the Status column.

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