Mounted Backups (File-level Restore)

Mounted Backups allow a quick recovery of individual files from the VM/Storage instance backup. Files can be downloaded via Web UI or copied directly from the node.

Supported guest filesystems

Operating System	OS Vendor	Feature Options
Windows 11	Microsoft	NTFS, FAT32
Windows Server 2019, 2022, 2025	Microsoft	NTFS, FAT32
CentOS 9.x Stream	CentOS	XFS, EXT3, EXT4
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.x, 9.x	Red Hat	XFS, EXT3, EXT4
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 15.x	SUSE	XFS, EXT3, EXT4, BTRFS
OpenSUSE 15.x	SUSE	XFS, EXT3, EXT4, BTRFS
Oracle Linux 8.x, 9.x	Oracle	XFS, EXT3, EXT4
Ubuntu 22.x, 24.x	Ubuntu	XFS, EXT3, EXT4, BTRFS

To mount backup, go to the Instances tab under Virtual Environment section on the left side menu, then click on the mount icon next to a chosen virtual machine

On the popup window, you can select which backup you want to mount and on which node. You can also change the mounting method, but we recommend leaving the default setting "Mount filesystem automatically".

The Mounted Backups tab show mounted Virtual Machine backups on the Storware Backup & Recovery node.

• VIRTUAL MACHINE - mounted virtual machine name

• MODE - Auto - Storware Backup & Recovery auto-detect filesystems and mount it on path "/mnt/vprotect/". In Manual mode, the user chose a mount point for selected filesystems.

• NODE - Storware Backup & Recovery node responsible for mount job.

• SNAPSHOT DATE - date of mounted backup of the VM.

• FILE SYSTEMS - a number of mounted filesystems.

• FILES - a number of mounted virtual disk images.

Next to every mounted backup you can see three buttons: To unmount backup click on To remount backup click on To go to the details page of mounted backup click on

On the details page, you can view some basic information or go deeper and browse files.

With a web browser, you can obtain even a single file from inside of your virtual machine backup.

Note: You can also perform the same action thanks to the CLI interface: CLI Reference