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hot add data disks. The other option is to have a temporary or standby

recovery VM available that can have data drives mounted to it and then used to

find the files to recover and copy them back to the original location.

The process is very similar to creating a Smart Clone but with some additional

steps. First find the Smart Copy that contains the data that needs to be

recovered. Choose to Clone from Smart Copy.

Step 1 - General Settings

Unlike creating a full clone of a Smart Copy, deselect the option to Register

new virtual machines. It is not necessary to register the VMs for selective data

restoration. Click Next to continue.

NOTE: Even if you are trying to restore just one file, the Smart Clone operation

could cause multiple datastores to be cloned and mounted. These will need to

be deleted using Datastore Manager when the process is finished.

Step 2 - Resource Pool

Select the vCenter cluster to assign the cloned datastores to and click Next.