Step 1: Choose the VM/ Host and Restore Type

1. Choose a VM/Host that you wish to restore.
2. Now, select the Disk Mount option and click Next.

Step 2: Choose the Restore point

1. Select a restore point to restore the backup data. BDRShield Backup Server retains the restore points as per the retention policy you have selected for the backup job.
2. Full backup and Incremental backup restore points are viewed in the dropdown box structure.
3. Each incremental restore point is a virtual full backup that makes full data recovery possible in each step. This makes the restoration process easier without having to recover a full backup and all the previous increments.
4. If the restore point is denoted with symbols (d), (w), (m), (+P) at the end, it indicates the following:

1. Daily Merge (d)
2. Weekly Merge (w)
3. Monthly Merge (m)
4. Persistent boot changes (+P)

1. Daily, Weekly, and Monthly merges take place based on the retention policies you have configured.
2. If you select Restore version time-stamp with (+P), then you have enabled the option to ’Include persistent boot changes during restore’ option that includes the changes you performed in the VM/Host during the instant boot restore process.

Step 3: Choose the Disk to Mount

1. Select the disk to mount in BDRShield Virtual Drive. You can use Windows Disk Management Service to browse through the mounted disk.

Step 4: Review & Restore

1. Review the recovery configuration you have selected and click on Restore to start the mounting of the backed-up disk.
   
2. On successful recovery, you can find the restored disk on the Disk Management Service of the BDRShield Backup Server machine.
   

Manage BDRShield Virtual Drive

BDRShield Virtual Drive is an exclusive feature of the BDRShield Backup Server, that allows instant access to the backup data. With the help of the VembuHIVE file system, BDRShield Virtual Drive stores the backup data in a neutral format. Then the backup data is virtually mounted, this allows instant access to the backup data.

BDRShield Virtual Drive mounts your backup data in the following file format types for any image-based backups

1. VHD
2. VMDK
3. VHDX
4. VMDK-Flat
5. RAW image files
   

These files can be used based on your requirements. For example, a VHD file can be mounted in Hyper-V or a VMDK file can be mounted in an ESXi server or a RAW image file can be mounted in KVM to create a virtual machine. VHD files can be mounted in disk management to access file-level backup data.

Manage BDRShield Virtual Drive (NFS Share)

1. Go to the Management tab, select and choose the Virtual Drive option. This page lists all the image-based backups stored in the BDRShield Backup Server. You can virtually mount any backup data which you wish to instant access.
2. To virtual mount backup data, click the Mount option alongside a specific backup job to be accessed.
3. You can access the backup data by viewing BDRShield VirtualDrive displayed on My Computer. Once done with the requirement, unmount data by selecting the Unmount option.
   

Enable NFS Service on BDRShield Virtual Drive

1. BDRShield Virtual Drive can be shared within a network area by enabling NFS service on BDRShield Virtual Drive.
   
2. NFS service for BDRShield Virtual Drive is available on both Linux and Windows servers.
   

Note: For enabling the NFS feature in Linux servers, it is necessary to have the NFS Kernel server installed in the backup server machine. You can install NFS Service by using the “apt-get install nfs-kernel-server” command. You need to run BDRShield with root/administrator privileges to save NFS settings.

1. NFS share service allows you to add BDRShield VirtualDrive as an NFS datastore in ESXi servers.
   

Note: Before enabling NFS service in BDRShield Virtual Drive, make sure Microsoft or other third party NFS services are disabled for uninterrupted service.