Currently, OADP can restore a whole volume from a snapshot. We would like to allow restoring individual files from a snapshot.

Example scenario:

OADP is used for backing up virtual machines running on OpenShift. Backups are created nightly. A user incorrectly modifies a file and would like to revert the change. As the user doesn't have a copy of the original file, the user would like to restore this file from the nightly backup.

Note that in this scenario the user doesn't want to restore the whole VM from the snapshot. Such a restore would ditch all the changes made since the last backup and the user wants to keep these changes.

The file-level restores could work as follows:

The restore operation would mount the backup snapshot(s) to the running virtual machine. The user could then copy any files from the snapshot(s) to the virtual machine using the standard operating system utilities.