Question

Your company runs a personal (persistent) host pool where each user is assigned a dedicated session host VM. A senior engineer accidentally deleted critical project files from their personal desktop three days ago, and the deletion was not caught until now. The VMs are protected by Azure Backup using a Recovery Services vault with daily backups retained for 30 days. The engineer needs only the deleted files recovered, and the running VM must remain online with minimal disruption. What is the most appropriate recovery action?

Accepted Answer

Perform a file-level recovery from a recovery point prior to the deletion by mounting the recovery point as an iSCSI volume and copying the required files back.

Answer

Restore the entire VM from a recovery point prior to the deletion to a new VM, then reassign the user to the new session host.

Answer

Replace the existing OS disk of the running VM with the disk from a recovery point prior to the deletion.

Answer

Use FSLogix profile container snapshots to recover the files since personal desktop data is stored in the roaming profile.