Individual file to be restore from FSX file system

Question

Is it possible to recover individual file or folder from FSX file system.

Accepted Answer

You cannot restore individual files or folders from an FSx backup. However, you can use an available backup to create a new file system and then access the files you need.  Restoring a backup to a new file system takes the same amount of time as creating a new file system, and the data restored from the backup is lazy-loaded onto the file system - so this can still be an efficient way to restore a single file or folder.

Answer

You will need to restore the backup to a new FSx file system, retrieve the target file(s), then delete the restored filesystem. See [Restoring backups](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/fsx/latest/WindowsGuide/using-backups.html#restoring-backups)

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Hi, good question

As per the documentation https://docs.aws.amazon.com/aws-backup/latest/devguide/restoring-fsx.html
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You can't restore to an existing Amazon FSx file system, and you can't restore individual files or folders.
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Answer

An option for quick recovery of individual files is to [enable shadow copies](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/fsx/latest/WindowsGuide/shadow-copies-fsxW.html) on the FSx file system. However, note the recommendations (SSD/capacity/IOPS) when enabling shadow copies. Depending on your workload and rate of file recovery requests, it may or may not be a small increase in cost for a lot of convenience.

Individual file to be restore from FSX file system

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