Search for files/folders for restore from Azure Files backup

Question

Azure File shares are backed up with Azure Backup which creates a snapshot for every backup.

If a deleted file/folder has to be restored from a snapshot but it is not known when the deletion occurred, thus not knowing which snapshot will have the file/folder that has to be restored, is there a way to search the snapshot metadata to locate which snapshot contains the file/folder to be restored?

Answer 1

@Seif Esmailjee
All snapshots taken by Azure Backup can be accessed by viewing snapshots in the portal, PowerShell, or CLI. You can open the Snapshots from the portal by navigating to the File share and selecting Snapshots under Operations. From there you can browse the snapshots to see if the file/directory is there. Once located it can be restored directly or using Azure Backup. See below for a demo of looking for file1.txt:

Hope this helps! Let me know if you have further questions or issues.

-------------------------------

Please don’t forget to "Accept the answer" and “up-vote” wherever the information provided helps you, this can be beneficial to other community members.

Answer 2

Thank you @deherman-MSFT , aware of how to restore from the snapshot. The process is well documented in the docs.
When it is not known which snapshot has the file/folder which needs to be restored from a multitude of existing snapshots, is there a way to search for the file/folder by name other then looking for it individually through each one to find it? Similar to a catalog of the backed up files/folders which can be searched.
Use case: User reports they deleted a file/folder, do not know when exactly they did it, they need it restored.