Restore files and folders

Performing backups is great, but backups are only useful if you can use them to restore files and folders. The reasons for restoring include recovering from a major system disaster, recovering from a single disk failure, or just restoring a file a user has inadvertently deleted.

In the previous recipe, you saw how you could mount the VHDX that WSB created for you and give it a drive letter. So one way to recover the file is just to mount the backup VHDX and then use Explorer or other tools to copy files from the backup to a new home. This recipe uses the WSB cmdlets to recover to a separate folder. You would do this if you wanted to recover some particular files and did not want to overwrite anything.

Getting ready

In this recipe, you first create a new backup policy and start it to create a backup. This script, which is derived from the recipe Configure and set a backup policy, is as follows:

If (Get-WBPolicy) {Remove-WBPolicy -All}
   If (-NOT (Test-Path C:food1.txt...