How to Restore

Restoring data from Quick backup is very easy and we’re always happy to help.

You can choose to restore a single deleted file to the same location or restore a complete network drive to a new server; the Quick Backup client software is very powerful and easy to use.
You can restore deleted data from weeks ago or just an over written file from yesterday.
With Advanced search and filter features you can search the backed up data on the Quick Backup servers and restore filtered searched data results you have specified.

Basic stages of a restore are outlined below:

Choose the Backupset (Backup Job) to Restore
Choose the date you would like to restore from
Choose the data you want to restore
Choose where you want to restore to and go.

Restore data from the client software or the Quick Backup website

Choose the backupset to restore from, in this case we are restoring from Backupset (Backup Job) Data

Below is the data from this backupset, in this case it was backing up D:\Data and all sub folders.

Choose Date of the backup you what to restore from

Choose time of the backup you want to restore from (as per backup schedule), in this case the backup is set to run every two hours.

Below The Data folder has been selected on the left, and all sub folder have automatically been selected to restore, also the version is the latest version from the Backup are chose to restore and the restoration location has been change to restore to the C:\

Click “Start Restore” when happy with the Selection, time of data, and location.

Restore Completed successfully and here are the files!

The Restore Screen

Menu Items	Description
Show files as of Job	Radio button to display files available for restore as of which backup job.
[YYYY/MM/DD]	Dropdown menu to select the date of a backup job (used with the [Show files as of Job] option).
[hh/mm/ss]	Dropdown menu to select the time of a backup job (used with the [Show files as of Job] option).
Show all files	Radio button to display all files available for restore.
Filter	Click to open the filter option.
Delete	Click to delete the selected file from the backup server. Important: Files will no longer be available for restore after they are deleted from the backup server.
Original location	Restore directories and files to their original location
Alternate location	Restore directories and files to an alternate location specified.
Change	Click to change the directory path of the restore destination.
Restore file permissions	Checkbox to enable or disable restore of file permission.
Search	Click to open the Search option.
Advanced	Click to open advanced option: Delete extra files - Click to synchronize the selected restore source with the restore destination during the restore process. Follow Link – Click to restore link destination’s data.

Stages of a restore are outlined below:

A connection from the backup client application to the backup server is established.
Download the restore file list from the backup server.
Create the directory path for the restoration (if necessary).
Download the backup data from the backup server.
All the data will be decompressed and decrypted on the backup client computer.
Merging of delta files (for file with multiple delta files, if necessary).
Merging of combined delta file with full file.
Restore is completed successfully.