Advanced Linux File Level Restore including Cross Restore

What?

Mount the contents of the latest restore point of a Linux VM to the very same or another VM using the data integration API. 
Why? 

• Linux admins can just browse the backup contents on the local system and restore the files they need (on the CLI 😉)
• Advanced & complex restore scenarios
• Cross-restore to another server (source server and target server can be different)

$machine = "esxrhel1"

$machine_dns = "esxrhel1.lab.local"
$machine_credentials = Get-VBRCredentials -Name "veeam" | ? { $_.Description.Contains("Veeam Linux Account") }

$rp = Get-VBRRestorePoint -Name $machine | Sort-Object -Property CreationTime | select -Last 1

$publishSession = Publish-VBRBackupContent -RestorePoint $rp -TargetServerName $machine_dns -TargetServerCredentials $machine_credentials -EnableFUSEProtocol -Reason "Test FUSE restore"

# Print info on session
$publishSession

#Unpublish-VBRBackupContent -Session $publishSession

As a result on the Linux system you’ll get loop mounts like these.

/dev/loop0 on /tmp/Veeam.Mount.FS.f9eb465a-b8e7-4ca1-8837-9e598507c973/esxrhel1_1-flat.vmdk_0 type xfs (rw,relatime,seclabel,nouuid,attr2,inode64,logbufs=8,logbsize=32k,noquota)
/dev/loop1 on /tmp/Veeam.Mount.FS.f9eb465a-b8e7-4ca1-8837-9e598507c973/esxrhel1-flat.vmdk_0 type vfat (rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=ascii,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro)
/dev/loop2 on /tmp/Veeam.Mount.FS.f9eb465a-b8e7-4ca1-8837-9e598507c973/esxrhel1-flat.vmdk_1 type xfs (rw,relatime,seclabel,nouuid,attr2,inode64,logbufs=8,logbsize=32k,noquota)
/dev/loop4 on /tmp/Veeam.Mount.FS.f9eb465a-b8e7-4ca1-8837-9e598507c973/rhel_esxrhel1-root type xfs (rw,relatime,seclabel,nouuid,attr2,inode64,logbufs=8,logbsize=32k,noquota)

The Linux admin can easily browse e.g. /tmp/Veeam.Mount.FS.f9eb465a-b8e7-4ca1-8837-9e598507c973/rhel_esxrhel1-root for files to restore.