How to Restore a File Server with Vinchin Backup & Recovery?

File servers store vital business data. When files are lost or damaged, quick recovery is key. Learn how to use Vinchin Backup & Recovery to protect and restore your file server fast.

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Updated by Brandon Hayes on 2025/08/29

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  • How to Restore a File Server with Vinchin Backup & Recovery?

Restoring a file server means bringing back files and folders—along with their metadata—to a usable state after data loss, corruption, or unwanted changes. Common reasons of restoring include accidental deletion, overwriting files by mistake, ransomware attacks, software bugs that damage data, or even hardware failures.

In this post, I’ll show you how to restore your file server using Vinchin Backup & Recovery.

How to Restore a File Server with Vinchin Backup & Recovery?

With backups created by Vinchin, you can recover your data to the original location on your file server or choose another destination, even a NAS server or S3 object store, if needed.

Step 1. Select the restore point you want to restore

Step 2. Choose the restore destination

Step 3. Set your preferred restore strategies

Step 4. Submit the job

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