Ahsay Go Proxmox Backup and Restore

September 16, 2026

Ahsay Go provides a comprehensive backup solution for your Proxmox VE. Ahsay Go provides you with a set of tools to help safeguard against data loss, system failure and potential disaster. This includes a VM backup feature and instant recovery feature (with the use of Run Direct technology), to ensure that mission critical virtual machines are back up and running within minutes of a disaster.

Instant VM Restore with Run Direct

Run Direct is a feature that helps reduce disruption and downtime of your production VMs.

Unlike normal VM restore procedure where a VM is extracted from backup files and copied to the production storage which can take hours to complete, restore with Run Direct can instantly power up a VM by running it directly from the backup files in the backup destination and the VM can be put into production.

Run Direct and Non-Run Direct Proxmox Backup Set Differences

	Run Direct Backup Set	Non-Run Direct Backup Set
Encryption	YES	YES
Compression	YES	YES
Ahsay Drive	YES	YES
Local Destination	YES	YES
Cloud Destination	NO	YES

Granular Restore Technology

Granular Restore Technology enables the recovery of individual files from a guest VM without booting up or restoring the whole guest VM first.

Granular restore is one of the available restore options for Proxmox backup sets. Ahsay Go makes use of Granular Restore technology to enable a file level restore from a guest VM backup possible. It is particularly useful if you only need to restore individual file(s) from a guest VM which would normally take a long time to restore and then startup before you can gain access to the files on the virtual disks. Granular Restore gives you a fast and convenient way to recover individual files on a guest VM.

During the Granular Restore process, the virtual disks of the guest VM can be mounted on the Windows machine as a local drive. This will allow the individual files on the virtual disks to be viewed via the file explorer within Ahsay Go or from the Windows File Explorer on the Windows machine where you are performing the restore on, without having to restore the entire virtual machine. Granular Restore can only mount virtual disks if the guest VM is running on a Windows Platform and it is supported for all backup destinations, i.e. Ahsay Drive, Cloud storage, or Local/Network drives. The mounting of Linux/Unix file systems from virtual disk file is currently not available due to limitations of the file system drivers.

How Does Granular Restore Work?

Granular Restore

Benefits of Using Granular Restore

Comparison between Granular Restore and Traditional Restore:

Granular Restore
Introduction
Granular restore allows you to quickly mount virtual disk(s) directly from the backup file of a guest VM, so that individual files from virtual disk(s) can be exposed via the file explorer on Ahsay Go, or to be copied from the file explorer on to a 64 bit Windows machine where you are performing the restore.
Pros
Restore of Entire Guest VM Not Required	Compared to a traditional restore where you have to restore the entire guest VM first, before you can access any individual files/folders, granular restore allows you to view and download individual files, without having to restore the entire guest VM first.
Ability to Restore Selected Files	In some cases, you may only need to restore a few individual file(s) from the guest VM, therefore, granular restore gives you a fast, convenient, and flexible tool to restore selected file(s) from a guest VM quickly.
Only One Backup Set Required	With traditional restore methods, if you wish to restore individual file(s) from a guest VM, you will have to create two different backup sets; a Proxmox guest VM backup set and a separate file backup set for the file(s) you wish to restore. You will require an additional Ahsay Go installation on the guest VM environment, with Granular Restore feature, only one backup set is required. Less storage space required - as you only need to provision storage for one backup set. Less backup time required - As only one backup job needs to run. Less time spent on administration - As there are fewer backup sets to maintain.
Cons
No Encryption and Compression	To ensure optimal restore performance, the backup of the guest VM will NOT be encrypted and compressed, therefore, you may have to take this factor in consideration when using this restore method.

Traditional Restore
Introduction
The traditional restore method for guest VMs, restores the entire backup files to either the original VM location or another standby location. The files or data on the guest VM can only be accessed once the guest VM has been fully recovered and booted up.
Pros
Backup with Compression and Encryption	Guest VM is encrypted and compressed, therefore is in smaller file size, and encrypted before being uploaded to the backup destination.
Cons
Slower Recovery	As the entire guest VM has to be restored before you can access any of its file(s) or data, the restore time could be long if the guest VM size is large.
Two Backup Sets Required	If you only wish to restore individual files from the VM, two separate backup sets are required, one for the VM image and the other for the individual files.