How To Restore My Files On Windows 10

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HiJeff, I am not sure what type of Windows restore you are goint to perform. I assume that Windows will remove your Dropbox files during the restoration process. In that case, I would suggest the following:

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to answer Elixr's question, I would only be reverting windows 10 to remove a windows 10 update. this process does not delete my files or folders. However, from experience, I know that this process does affect dropbox's tracking of the sync status between my online dropbox files and their respective copies on my local desktop machine, and can cause major issues downstream.

I should also note that I cannot delete my local copies of my files stored in my desktop dropbox folder, as not all of them are synced up to my online dropbox folder, as selective sync is turned off on certain folders, due to issues arising from my previous bout with a windows 10 update earlier this year.

So if it is possible to advise a means by which I can maintain both my desktop dropbox folders and my online dropbox folders in their current status, I would appreciate it. If your earlier advice will do it, let me know.

@Jeff S.73 If Windows restore does not affect your local files and folders, after the reinstallation and relinking Dropbox app should not cause any problem provided you preserve all settings including Dropbox folder location. However, Dropbox app might reindex your files agin, just give it some time, and everything should be alright. It is recommended that you make a backup copy of your local data to an external drive, there is a small but finite chance that things go wrong during Windows restoration process.

If you use windows system restore although it should not effect files and folders it will effect your dropbox files. I had to preform a system restore on a Windows 7 machine that was dated from 7 days previous to the restore date.

After the restore Dropbox treated the restored folders that existed and had the information from 7 day before as the most recent file and overwrote the newer cloud storage versions essentially deleting anything that was done in those 7 days.

This happened to be a lot of very important information in my case. Luckily with the help of the support team they were able to restore all the files from the 30day backup they keep. This was done within a few hours but caused a lot of stress due to the importance of the files.

If you are going to use system restore function in windows you must backup your data from dropbox if there has been any changes to the files between the date you restore and the restore point you use. If you do not you may face possible hassle in recovery and potentially loss of data.

Today we have received the task from Business to restore some file from Linux VM in AZURE. Media Agent is only Windows VM and during the process of restore indexes in Commvault Commcell Error appeared. And my question do we have some workaround in that case to restore the file from that type of backup?

I checked the possiblity of restore to server as entire machine and copy data between the servers. As @Damian Andre mentioned the server is in AZURe (Public Cloud) and I am not sure if the customer will be glad to extra pay for machine which will be used only for restore perspective and even for some files.

You could use a free Veeam B&R Free Backup Software For Windows, VMware, & More - Veeam to backup these two virtual machines at the hypervisor level instead of built-in WSB. File-Level Restore is an essential Veeam feature that is done using the UI and does not require messing around VHDX files.

Personally I use WSB on the Hyper-V host which makes me be able to recover the VHDX files and i also use WSB on the Hyper-V clients which gives me the possibility to restore file for file so to speak. It might not help you right now but just a tip for the future.

That is an excellent choice since you can also backup your other physical machines (desktops or servers) using the free Veeam Agent and managing them from the same VBR console as well -backup-of-physical-machine-from-veeam-backup .

Windows Defender has quarantined two threats on my PC recently: one is an infected executable on a network share (which was put there deliberately and which someone needs), the other is a simple "potentially unwanted app" from a bundle installer I downloaded for FileZilla.

In Defender's Protection History, when I click on "Restore" or "Remove" for one threat, I get a UAC prompt, then nothing happens when I confirm. After accepting once, I don't get other UAC prompts, but further commands don't do anything either.

First open Command Prompt as Administrator. Then run cd "%ProgramFiles%\Windows Defender". Now run MpCmdRun.exe -restore -listall and you will get a list of quarantined files. Now choose the file you want to restore and run MpCmdRun.exe -restore -name "Filename" where "Filename" is the file's name you want to restore.

I had the same issue: it was due to the fact that the file that Windows Defender quarantined was originally in a folder that I had later renamed. This caused restore to fail silently, since Defender didn't know where to restore the file (what a great program). There is no way to specific another folder where to restore the file in the UI: one has to use the CLI.

As a side note, if one tries to restore the deleted file via CLI without specifying the path (e.g., with "%ProgramFiles%\Windows Defender\MpCmdRun.exe" -Restore -name "filename") and if the original folder was later renamed, one gets the error message:

We create regular nightly backups of our physical server to (rotating) external hard drives. Our physical server is a Windows Server 2016 running two Server 2016 VM instances: the domain controller and the production server.

I am performing a disaster recovery test for the scenario where the server breaks, replacement hardware is not (immediately) available and the VMs need to be restored to a client machine to resume operation until replacement hardware is available.

(What I tried so far: I attached the external HDD to a Windows 10 PC, stared "Backup and Restore (Windows 7)" and selected "Select another backup to restore files from", but no backup device was found.)

Unlike Remote Server and Role Administration Tools that are available on Windows 10 (i.e. can be turned on from Windows Features), Windows Server Backup is only available on Windows Server operating systems in the Add Roles and Features Wizard in Server Manager.

Then, some of the options needs VSS writer running all the time, making them only available for restoring a previous state, like Recover Applications and Data; they are out of option here. Finally, Recover the Operating System or Full Server must be launched from the Windows Recovery Environment. I haven't personally tested, but this is something you could try: test if it is possible to use the Windows Recovery Environment within "Install an OS from a boot CD/DVD".

Then, outside the Windows Server Backup (& restoring to a client machine) used here, there's another option: you can use Azure Site Recovery and Replicate Hyper-V virtual machines to Azure. This way, you can skip the possibly long restoring phase and have up-to-date off-site backup of the whole servers in a cloud. Like in your situation here, it's also possible to run the fully functional server on Azure until you have the replacement hardware. You just need a temporary site-to-site VPN and possibly modify your network configuration. Naturally, it's wise to test this in advance, too.

I only have access to one Windows Server, but managed to rehearse the 'server won't boot but can only fully read user files from Server Backup via 'Windows Backup tool' on a server' conundrum by downloading an evaluation copy of Server 2019 Essentials from the Microsoft Evaluation Center and spinning up that 6-month trial copy in a Virtual Machine (in my case, on a mac - i know, right!). In the eval server, you may have to install the Bitlocker 'feature' in 'Roles and Features' in order to unlock the External backup drive (or you could disable bitlocker on that drive via Win10?). Thereafter, the full 'Windows Server Backup' tool functionality is available to navigate the source backup as if the original server was up. (Be sure the external drive is unlocked and mounted BEFORE running the Windows Backup tool' - so that it can autodetect the archive during RESTORE).

Since, in your case, you don't want to do a bare-metal recovery but only extract some files and folders (the VMs), you can do that by directly accessing the vhdx files created by Windows Server Backup:

Windows\n11 promises both UX and performance improvements that align the operating\nsystem (OS) with modern apps and services, while leveraging the compute and\nmemory power of next-generation processors. But no matter how shiny the new OS,\nusers will still need to deal with routine issues such as recovering lost\nfiles. There are many reasons why files may be deleted or become unavailable:

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