The director of a business needs a folder of files restored from the corporate shared drive. This drive sits on a Windows VM backed up by Veeam…

The Veeam Guest OS Restore wizard for Windows provides the flexibility to restore files and folders to a location other than the original one. When selecting the "Restore to..." option, you can specify an alternate server and path. This destination can be a local folder on the Veeam backup server or, more commonly for this scenario, a network shared folder accessible via a Universal Naming Convention (UNC) path (e.g., \\fileserver\restores). This directly fulfills the requirement of restoring the folder to a new, accessible location for the director.

A. An AWS S3 bucket: The standard Guest OS Restore wizard is designed to restore to file systems, not directly to object storage locations like an S3 bucket.

B. An Azure blob: Similar to S3, the wizard does not support direct restoration of guest OS files to Azure Blob object storage.

C. An e-mail as an attachment: This functionality is not a feature of the Guest OS Restore wizard for files and folders; it is more associated with Veeam Explorers for specific applications like Exchange.

1. Veeam Backup & Replication V12 User Guide for VMware vSphere: In the section "Restoring VM Guest OS Files (Multi-OS)

" the sub-section "Restore to Another Location" explicitly states: "You can restore files and folders to a new location. The new location can be a folder on the backup server or a network shared folder." This confirms that a UNC path to a network share is a valid destination. (Reference: helpcenter.veeam.com

Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide for VMware vSphere v12

Section: Data Recovery > Restore from Backup > Restore VM Guest OS Files > Restore to Another Location).

2. Veeam Backup & Replication V12 User Guide for Microsoft Hyper-V: The procedure is identical for Hyper-V backups. The guide details the "Restore to" step of the wizard

where you can specify a server and a path

which includes network shares. (Reference: helpcenter.veeam.com

Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide for Microsoft Hyper-V v12

Section: Data Recovery > Restore from Backup > Restore VM Guest OS Files > Restore to Another Location).