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Granular Restore of Individual Files in Backed Up VM
Before you proceed with the Granular Restore, make sure the following dependencies are fulfilled on the restore machine. Failure to do so may cause the granular restore to fail.
1). Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 Redistributable (x86) / (x64)
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48145
2). Update for Universal C Runtime in Windows
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2999226/update-for-universal-c-runtime-in-windows
3). Microsoft Security Advisory 3033929 (for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2)
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/security/3033929.aspx
Requirements and Limitations
1. Granular restore does not support the mounting of virtual disks, if the disk itself is encrypted, for example using Windows Bitlocker or other third party security features.
2. If any folders or files on a virtual disk are encrypted, these files/folder cannot be supported with Granular Restore. For example, if the “Encrypt contents to secure data” is selected in Advanced attributes.
3. The mounting of Linux/Unix file systems from virtual disk file is currently not available due to limitations of the file system drivers.
4. Granular restore can only be performed on one guest VM at a time with no limitation on number of virtual disk that can be mounted on the guest VM, however, only files/ folders from one virtual disk can be retrieved at a time.
5. Windows User Account Control (UAC) must be disabled to apply granular restore.
