AOMEI Backupper Help Guides

How to restore a single file from a backup image

In this article, we’ll learn how to restore a single file from a backup image.

Restore a single file from a File Backup Image

Please follow the steps to do:

Step 1.   Click Restore on the left side of AOMEI Backupper Home page then you can restore via Select Task or Select Image File.

For select task to restore, please find and choose the File Backup task then click Next to switch to the Image Information page.

For select Image to restore, please find the file image of the task then choose it then click Open to switch to the Image Information page.

Step 2. On the image Information page, please click the right-arrow icon to unfold the file directory in turn, next, you’ll see all these files that in the file image.

Step 3. Then you can tick the item you’d like to restore, if you’d like to restore a single folder from the file image, please tick the folder then click Next button.

If you’d like to restore a single file from the file image, please tick the file on the right-side then click the Next button.

Step 4. On the File Restore page, you can choose whether to "Restore to original location" or "Restore to a new location". click Start Restore to execute this task.

You may click here to know more details about File Restore.

Note:

• From AOMEI Backupper V7.4.0, you can directly double-click the backup image in Windows File Explorer to open the backup image to view the backup files. There is no need to restore the backup.

Restore a single file from Disk/System/Partition image

For disk/system/partition images, it is unable to directly select single files to restore.

However, there are 2 ways to view and copy files from disk/system/partition images without restoring the image:

1. From AOMEI Backupper V7.4.0, you can directly double-click the disk/system/partition backup image in Windows File Explorer to view the backup files. And, you can just copy files you need in Windows File Explorer. It is very convenient.

2. You can also mount the image as a virtual disk via Explore Image then you can access it via Windows Explorer.

Then, you can copy a specific file from the virtual disk and then paste it to another location.

You can click Tools-> Explore Image to launch this feature.