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Explore Volumes

Backup > Explore Volumes

The Explore Volumes page mounts a volume backup as a new read only drive letter on the same machine or on a different machine. The backup volume can be browsed, just like any other drive, with Windows Explorer. Individual files or folders can be copied from mounted backup volumes to any other folder on your local machine you have write access to. Mounted volume backups remain available for browsing unless the computer is rebooted or the drive is unmounted by clicking the Unplug All button.

Note: A user with access rights to the Image Location must be logged in at the time the backup is mounted.

Click a machine ID to select a volume backup to mount. The list of machine IDs you can select depends on the Machine ID / Group ID filter. To display on this page, machine IDs must have backup software installed on the managed machine using the Backup > Install/Remove page.

Mount to machine ID

Select Mount to machine ID to mount the backup image to the same machine ID that the backup image was made on.

Mount to select machine ID

Select Mount to select machine ID to mount the backup image to a different machine ID than the backup image was made on.

Mount

To explore a full or incremental/differential backup, click the radio button next to the date listed. The complete image, as of that date, gets mounted on the managed machine as a new drive letter. Click the Mount button to generate a script to mount the backup image. The screen automatically refreshes every 5 seconds and reports status of the mount until the mount script completes execution.

Unplug All

Click Unplug All to remove any mounted volume backups.