Dell EMC Avamar for VMware 19.7 User Guide

Image backup overview

Image backup offers three levels of restore functionality: image restore, file-level restore (FLR), and the capability to mount specific drives from a Windows image backup in order to support application-level recovery.

Three buttons are provided above the Select for Restore contents pane, which are not shown if a non-VMware image backup is selected:

Table 1. Image restore toolbar buttons

Button	Tooltip	Description
	Browse for Image Restore	Initiates an image restore.
	Browse for Granular Restore	Initiates a file-level restore.
	Mount Windows VMDK	Mounts selected drives in a Windows image backup in order to support application-level recovery.

When performing an image restore, the Restore Options dialog box is slightly different from the typical Restore Options dialog box. The primary differences are that virtual machine information is shown and three choices for restore destinations are offered:

• Original virtual machine
• Different (existing) virtual machine
• New virtual machine

Once the destination selection is made, each procedure varies slightly from that point forward.