A common situation that you might face is when you accidentally remove data or suffer a ransomware attack that encrypts your data. However, when you have your data backed up on Azure, you can be sure that you are on the right side. You will be able to recover your files and folders very easily just by taking the following steps:

1. Navigate to the affected VM for which you need to recover data. Under OPERATIONS, click on Backup, then File Recovery, as shown in the following screenshot:

2. Once you have clicked on File Recovery, a new blade will pop up where you have to select the recovery point to which you will be reverted to, as shown in the following screenshot:

3. Then, you have to download the executable, which is PowerShell-based and will require a password, as shown in the following screenshot:

4. Once the executable is downloaded, you have to run it in elevated mode (Run as Administrator), and enter the password that will run the script, as shown in the following screenshot:

5. Then, it initiates a connection between the local machine and the recovery point. After that, it mounts the disks of the VM at that recovery point to the local machine to restore the files you need, as shown in the following screenshot:

6. Once you are done with restoring your lost and/or corrupted data, you can close the connection by unmounting disks from the VM, as shown in the following screenshot:

7. By now, you should have retrieved your lost data locally and be working on uploading it to Azure VM, or running the executable on the affected Azure VM itself and copying the data from the mounted disk to it--that would be a better solution for organizations with a slow internet connection.