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 $publishSessionAs 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.