Procedure for Item-Level Recovery of VHD

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Applies To: System Center Data Protection Manager 2010

Use this procedure for item-level recovery of virtual hard drives (VHD).

To perform item-level recovery of virtual hard drives (VHD)

  1. In DPM Administrator Console, click Recovery on the navigation bar.

  2. Browse to or search for the virtual machine name that you want to recover, and then, in the Results pane, select the item (VHD).

  3. Select the date from which you want to perform a recovery.

    Note

    Dates in bold indicate available recovery points.

    The path of the VHD file on the protected computer is displayed in the Recoverable Items pane.

  4. In the Recoverable Items pane, select the item (VHD file) that you want to recover.

    Note

    You cannot select and recover multiple VHDs at the same time.

  5. In the Actions pane, click Recover to start the Recovery Wizard.

    Note

    When you are recovering a VHD of a virtual machine that has Hyper-V snapshots, .AVHD files are not displayed in the Recoverable Items pane, but DPM will recover the parent VHD and all the associated .AVHD files.

    DPM saves VHDs in a custom directory structure in the following format: DPM_<backup-time>\DPM_Recovered_At_<RecoveryTime>\<Path of the VHD on the protected computerr> with the exact file system hierarchy that is used on a protected computer with the DPM agent installed.

For more information about the Recovery Wizard, see Recovery Wizard (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=164845).