Operation Manual

If the selected location contains any password-protected archives or archives of physical machines

(Encrypted and Physical machines Data), you have to specify the password in order to restore your

data from these archives.

The selected location is scanned for archives and their contents. As a result of the scan, on the left

side you will see a tree-list of the virtual machines included in all archives stored in the selected

location or inside the selected archive. By clicking on any virtual machine, you can check the list of all

its recovery points on the right side.

For each machine, the latest recovery point is selected by default. The recovery point could be

changed by clicking on it. Note that File Recovery allows the selection of just a single Virtual Machine

and single recovery point at a time, while the Restore Backup task allows recovery of several VMs.

After selecting the recovery point for the virtual machine you can proceed to the next step. This

recovery point defines the virtual machine state which you want to extract files or folders from.

9.2 Explore Recovery Point

In the second step of the File Recovery wizard you have to choose which files or folders to restore.

Here you can see the selected VM recovery point contents with a Windows Explorer-like directory

browser. In the browsing tree on the left side you can expand the volumes and folders and

browse/select the contents of each volume/folder you want to recover on the right side.

Acronis vmProtect 7 File Recovery wizard has the built-in search feature. The search box is located in

the top right corner above the files and folders list. You can use the search when you don’t know the

exact file name you want to restore. You can filter files and folders in the list, and see only those that

match any of the search criteria called “file masks”.

You can use one or more wildcard characters “*” and “?” as a file mask, for example:

“C:\Finance\*.*”.

Also, you can sort the search results by any of the columns: name, date and time modified, size, and

folder. If you select to sort first by a certain field, for example, by time, you can then select to sort by

another field, for example, by name. In this case your data will have a sorting of 2 levels, first the

name, and then the time. So you can easily find the needed files for recovery.

After you’ve selected all the files you would like to recover, click the Download button. You will see

the default browser pop-up window (as for the right mouse click -> Save target as… pop-up) where

you can select the destination for saving the selected backup files. All files and folders you selected

will be downloaded there as a single .zip archive.

Note that File Recovery cannot be sucessfully done for the file names containing any invalid

character: * : ? « < > | / \. For restoring such files please use Run VM from backup operation.