How do you recover files after a ransomware attack?

Files are recovered by restoring them from a backup, snapshot, or object version that predates the encryption. Paying for a decryption key is unreliable and funds the attacker, so a proven clean backup is the dependable path.

The risk is that recent backups may already contain encrypted or corrupted files, because ransomware often dwells undetected for days or weeks before triggering. Elastio applies deep file inspection across backup and replicated data to separate clean files from compromised ones at the file level, so you restore what is safe and exclude what is not.

Last updated May 27, 2026