Ransomware attackers specifically target and attempt to destroy backup systems to increase the probability of payment. Hardening your system is critical. Please ensure you have reviewed your platform security using the Security Hardening Checklist
Cohesity

COHESITY Documentation

Explore our documentation to get started, discover products & new features, access troubleshooting guides, register sources, platforms support.

Products
Data Security Alliance
Visit Cohesity.com
Demos
Support
Blogs
Developers
Partner Portals
Cohesity Community
© 2026 Cohesity, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Terms of Use|
Privacy Policy|
Legal|
  1. Home
  2. Veritas NetBackup™ for VMware Administrator's Guide
  3. Restore virtual machines
  4. About restoring individual VMware files
Veritas NetBackup™ for VMware Administrator's Guide

About restoring individual VMware files

This topic applies to NetBackup for VMware.

You can use either of the following procedures to restore files individually.

One-stage process

Restore individual files directly to a virtual machine in one of the following ways:

  • Restore the files to a virtual machine on which NetBackup client software is installed.

  • Windows only: Restore the files to virtual machine drives that have been mapped to a host on which NetBackup client software is installed.

Two-stage process

Restore individual files to a host on which the NetBackup client software is installed (not to the virtual machine). See the NetBackup Backup, Archive, and Restore Getting Started Guide on how to restore to different locations. Then manually copy the restored files to the virtual machine. (NetBackup does not perform this step.)

Note:

Individual file recovery is supported from full backups and from incremental backups, as long as the Enable file recovery from VM backup policy option is enabled.

More Information

Setting up NetBackup Client Service for VMware restores to a Windows shared virtual machine drive

Restoring individual VMware virtual machine files

Restoring VMware virtual machine disks by using Backup, Archive, and Restore

Restoring the full VMware virtual machine

Feedback

Was this page helpful?
Previous

VMware virtual machine disk restore file

Next

Restoring individual VMware virtual machine files

Feedback

Was this page helpful?