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The restore from backup system uses anti-virus protection.If viruses are detected during the restore from backup, they will be removed.

Restore the virtual machine⁠

When restoring a virtual machine, it can overwrite the old version or restore to a separate VM.

Restore a virtual machine with overwrite⁠

  1. Open the Veeam Backup & Replication portal. You can access the portal from the Control Panel: in the top menu, click Products → VMware-based Cloud → Backup.
  2. Open the VMs tab.
  3. Select a virtual machine.
  4. Click Restore VM.
  5. Select a restore point.
  6. Optional: To have the virtual machine start automatically after restoring, check the Power on VM after restoring checkbox.
  7. To restore only those data blocks that are necessary to restore the VM to an earlier state instead of restoring the entire VM from backup, enable the Quick rollback (restore changed blocks only) option. The recovery time will be shortened and performance will not change.
  8. Click Restore. Before starting the restore, a warning will appear that the backup will be deployed on top of the running machine. The running machine will be shut down and deleted. The restore status will be displayed on the same tab.

Restore a virtual machine without overwriting⁠

  1. Open the Veeam Backup & Replication portal. You can access the portal from the Control Panel: in the top menu, click Products → VMware-based Cloud → Backup.
  2. Open the VMs tab.
  3. Select a virtual machine.
  4. Click Restore VM.
  5. Select a restore point.
  6. Click Restore.
  7. Select keep. The BM will be restored next to it, without overwriting the current BM. The restore status will be displayed on the same tab.

Restore vApp⁠

  1. Open the Veeam Backup & Replication portal. You can access the portal from the Control Panel: in the top menu, click Products → VMware-based Cloud → Backup.
  2. Open the VMs tab.
  3. Select a virtual machine.
  4. Click Restore vApp.

Recover a virtual disk⁠

  1. Open the Veeam Backup & Replication portal. You can access the portal from the Control Panel: in the top menu, click Products → VMware-based Cloud → Backup.
  2. Open the VMs tab.
  3. Open the virtual machine page.
  4. Click Virtual Disks.
  5. At the Restore Point step, select a restore point.
  6. Click Next.
  7. At the Disk Mapping step, click Choose.
  8. Select the virtual machine to which the recovered disk will be connected. By default, the recovered disk is connected to the source machine. The target machine must not have any snapshots.
  9. Press OK.
  10. Mark the disks you want to restore.
  11. Optional: If you want to keep the original disk intact, click Change disk mapping and select a free controller node. If you do not, the recovered disk will mapped to the same controller node as the original disk and overwrite it.
  12. Optional: If you want to change the type of the restored disk, in the Restored Disk Type field, select the type. If you do not do this, the restored disk will have the same type as the original disk.
  13. Optional: if restoring to the source machine and controller node, instead of restoring the entire disk from the backup, you can restore only those data blocks that are necessary to restore the disk to an earlier state — to do this, check the Quick rollback (restore changed blocks only) checkbox. The recovery time will be shortened and performance will not change.
  14. Click Restore. The target machine will be shut down during the restore process.
  15. Optional: To have the virtual machine power on automatically after disk is restored, check the Power on target VM after disk is restored checkbox.

Recover individual files⁠

The file can be restored to the original virtual machine or downloaded locally. The files are restored through VMware Tools.

Restoring files in this way is limited in speed. To recover files totaling 10 GB or more, we recommend connecting to the recovery portal from a virtual machine and downloading the files. If the volume of recoverable files is 100 GB or more, the optimal solution is to restore the virtual disk and reboot the virtual machine.

  1. Open the Veeam Backup & Replication portal. You can access the portal from the Control Panel: in the top menu, click Products → VMware-based Cloud → Backup.
  2. Open the Files tab.
  3. Click Pick from list and select the virtual machine where the file is located.
  4. Press Mount.
  5. Locate the directory and file.
  6. If you need to restore multiple files from different directories, add the required files to the Add to restore list. All files will be displayed on the Pending Restore tab and can be restored or downloaded. The time required to upload large files locally via a browser depends on the Internet channel used.