A finance team accidentally deleted a single Excel file from a departmental file share hosted on a cloud VM. The virtual machine continues to operate normally and no other data should be changed. Which type of recovery method, often called "granular" recovery, allows the administrator to restore only the missing Excel file without affecting the rest of the VM or its backup set?
Granular, or file-level, recovery enables administrators to restore exactly the objects that were lost-such as a single file, folder, or mailbox item-without rolling back the entire VM, volume, or application database. This precision reduces downtime and eliminates the risk of overwriting data that is still current. Incremental backup restoration focuses on how data is captured, not on selective restore. A full VM snapshot revert would restore the whole virtual machine to an earlier state, potentially overwriting recent data. Continuous replication failover swaps production to a replica VM for availability and is not intended for item-level recovery.
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