Restore Strategy

Restore Files or Folders

The following restore options are currently available for computers:

Restore Source	Management Console	Backup Agent (Windows)	Backup Agent (macOS, Linux)	Other Options
File backup Windows (New Backup Format (NBF))	Item-level restore and Quick Restore	Item-level restore	❌	Online Access 2.0
Legacy File backup Windows	Item-level restore and Quick Restore	Item-level restore	✔️	Online Access 2.0
File backup macOS BETA (New Backup Format (NBF))	Item-level restore and Quick Restore	Item-level restore	✔️	Online Access 2.0
Legacy File backup macOS BETA	Item-level restore and Quick Restore	Item-level restore	✔️	Online Access 2.0
File backup Linux BETA (New Backup Format (NBF))	Item-level restore and Quick Restore	Item-level restore	✔️	Online Access 2.0
Legacy File backup Linux BETA	Item-level restore and Quick Restore	Item-level restore	✔️	Online Access 2.0
Image-Based backup Windows (New Backup Format (NBF))	Restore, Item-level restore, and Quick Restore	Item-level restore	❌	Online Access 2.0
Hyper-V VM image-based backup	Restore, Item-level restore, and Quick Restore	Item-level restore	❌	Online Access 2.0
VMware VM image-based backup	Restore, Item-level restore, and Quick Restore	Item-level restore	❌	Online Access 2.0

Legacy File Backup format for backups and restores may cause significantly slower performance in comparison to the New Backup Format backup plans.

You can expect that in the following cases restore job can be completed in multiple threads. The rest of restore jobs will be completed in one thread that can result in lower performance. Consider, restore of local drives, network drives, network shares, external drives, etc., will always work in one thread.

	File Backup	Image-Based Backup	VM Backup	MS SQL	Exchange
Legacy Backup Format (CBF) - Cloud Storage	✔️
Legacy Backup Format (CBF) - Local Storage	✔️
New Backup Format (NBF) - Cloud Storage	✔️	✔️	✔️	❌	❌
New Backup Format (NBF) - Local Storage	✔️			❌	❌

Disaster Recovery

In case you need to restore crashed server using backed up image on the new machine, refer to Bare Metal Restore. In case you want to be ready to perform disaster recovery using your prepared disaster recovery server, refer to Disaster Recovery.

Also is available to restore your machine to cloud. You can request and use the following options:

Restore using Command Line Interface

The following restore capabilites are available using CLI: