Mount a Recovery Point
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Use the Elastio recovery point (RP) mount functionality to restore files without restoring an entire EBS or block backup or as self-service clones.
The Elastio mount creates a standard block device with a mount point on the local system in seconds. This mount point is used to serve data to applications directly or for quick file-level recoveries.
Step 1:
Choose an EBS or block backup you want to mount:
elastio rp list --ebs
or
elastio rp list --type block
Step 2:
Run the following command to mount a recovery point ID returned from the list command executed in step 1 above:
sudo -E elastio mount rp --rp <elastio-rp-id>
Filesystem support
Linux
Partitions with an ext2, ext3, ext4, XFS, or NTFS filesystem will be mounted and accessible via a mount point; otherwise, they will be attached as raw devices.
Windows
Partitions with an NTFS filesystem will be mounted and accessible via a mount point; otherwise, it will be attached as a raw device.
Advanced Options
The following options are available with the mount command:
--attach- The device will be mounted but not attached--mount-options- For advanced use cases, you can pass the NDB options directly to the mount instruction
Examples
Mount specific entries using the block backup type’s recovery point ID:
sudo -E elastio mount rp --rp <elastio-rp-id> <partition-name-1> <partition-name-2>
Mount a specific entry by recovery point ID for the block backup type to a particular mount point on Linux:
sudo -E elastio mount rp --rp <elastio-rp-id> <partition-name>:<mount-point>
Mount a specific entry by recovery point ID for a EC22 backup to a specific mount point on Windows:
sudo -E elastio mount rp --rp <elastio-rp-id> <aws-eba-volume-id>;<mount-point>
Attach all entries by recovery point ID only via NDB:
sudo -E elastio mount rp --rp <elastio-rp-id> --attach-only
Mount all entries by recovery point ID with specific mount options:
sudo -E elastio mount rp --rp <elastio-rp-id> --mount-options="norecovery"
Mount all entries by recovery point ID with particular NDB options:
sudo -E elastio mount rp --rp <elastio-rp-id> --nbd-client-args="-b 1024"
Run the following commands to access the mounted recovery point on Windows:
>cd c:\rp-05-05-21-10:10am
>dir
Managing mounted recovery points
Use the following commands to return a list of mounted recovery points (RPs):
sudo -E elastio mount list
Unmount a recovery point by RP ID:
sudo -E elastio umount --rp <elastio-rp-id>
Use the following command to unmount by mount point:
sudo -E elastio umount <mount-point>
Use the following command to unmount all:
sudo -E elastio umount --all