Vembu Best Practices Guide

File Level Recovery

To know what File Level Recovery is and the steps involved for the recovery read here - File Level Recovery

File level recovery is supported only for NTFS file systems.

Beginning the restore process

• The disk is virtually parsed and the MFT is read live at the time of the restore.
• The Vembu BDR backup server then retrieves the root drive list with the help of the FileType (DriveType).
• Vembu BDR backup server receives the file/folders details and the MFT loading will begin. The restore process will be started using the MFT parser with the help of appropriate MFT_FILE_INDEX.

The working of File Level Recovery is explained with the help of an architecture diagram below.