
exe called Extract.exe you can also use the command prompt to perform the extraction You will have also seen in the Veeam Extractor Utility a. In my example I have only used one VM but you could handle many VMs as part of the extract process.

You can then take this and import those files into in this example back into your VMware datastore and get that machine up and running. If you then go and check the extracted backup folder, we will see all of our image-based backup files associated including configuration files and other disks. You then choose where you wish to extract/ export this to and click extract, it really is that simple. Simply navigate to your Veeam image-based backups that you wish to extract / export. You will see two files here if you run the you will then see the following window. I have downloaded both available utilities to a shared location on my network.įirst thing to do is extract the zip file you downloaded for windows Next up we are going to walk through both Windows and Linux steps on how to use this tool. My suggestion is always store a copy of the relevant or both extract utility somewhere accessible on the network and also maybe on the same backup media so that if you find yourself requiring recovery and you do not have your Veeam Backup & Replication installation nor do you have access to the internet to download the media then you have at least this option to get things back up and running. My advice is that now this is available as a separate download you can either on demand download just this utility. I already mentioned in the opening that this is not new, and this has always been shipped with Veeam Backup & Replication. Once you are logged in you need to scroll down and select the extract utility that you wish to use, there is a utility available for both Windows and Linux. You can find this new available download here. Anton Gostev blogged about this in this week’s weekly digest.

Veeam made the Extract Utility available as a standalone download this week so that you could get a copy of this. Much the same as an application that looks after compressed files and works across multiple operating systems. The Extract Utility is a small bit of software that allows for the “Files in backup” to be extracted. Let’s just rewind, what is the Veeam Extract Utility? It is a tool that allows you to extract your Veeam image-based backups (VBK, VIB, VRB) without requiring a full installation of Veeam Backup & Replication, even though Community Edition gives you all the recovery options. You know those tools that you all should have close by and accessible as an administrator? The Veeam Extract Utility should be one of these tools, before this week it has always been free to download but it has always been included as part of the Veeam Backup & Replication software download.
