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Restore a backup

You can restore:

The backup recovery system uses antivirus protection. If viruses are detected during backup recovery, they will be removed.

Restore a virtual machine

During restoration, the virtual machine can overwrite the old version or be restored as a separate VM.

Restore a virtual machine with overwriting

  1. Open the Veeam Backup & Replication portal. You can access the portal from the control panel: in the top menu, click Products → Cloud powered by VMware → Backups.
  2. Open the VMs tab.
  3. Select a virtual machine.
  4. Click Restore VM.
  5. Select a restore point.
  6. Optional: to automatically start the virtual machine after recovery, select the Power on VM after restoring checkbox.
  7. To restore only the data blocks required to return the VM to an earlier state instead of restoring the entire VM from a backup, enable the Quick rollback (restore changed blocks only) option. The restore time will be reduced, and performance will remain unchanged.
  8. Click Restore. Before the restore starts, a warning will appear indicating that the backup will be deployed over the running machine. The running machine will be powered off 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 → Cloud powered by VMware → Backups.
  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 VM will be restored alongside without overwriting the current VM. The restore status will be displayed on the same tab.

Restore a vApp

  1. Open the Veeam Backup & Replication portal. You can access the portal from the control panel: in the top menu, click Products → Cloud powered by VMware → Backups.
  2. Open the VMs tab.
  3. Select a virtual machine.
  4. Click Restore vApp.

Restore 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 → Cloud powered by VMware → Backups.
  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 a virtual machine to which the restored disk will be connected. By default, the restored disk is connected to the original machine. The target machine must not have any snapshots.
  9. Click OK.
  10. Select 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 do this, the restored disk will connect to the same controller node as the original one and overwrite it.
  12. Optional: if you want to change the restored disk type, select a type in the Restored Disk Type field. If you do not do this, the restored disk will have the same type as the original one.
  13. Optional: if the restoration is performed to the original machine and controller node, instead of restoring the entire disk from a backup, you can restore only the data blocks required to return the disk to an earlier state — to do this, select the Quick rollback (restore changed blocks only) checkbox. The restore time will be reduced, and performance will remain unchanged.
  14. Click Restore. The target machine will be powered off during the restoration process.
  15. Optional: to automatically power on the virtual machine after disk recovery, select the Power on target VM after disk is restored checkbox.

Restore individual files

You can restore a file to the source virtual machine or download it locally. Files are restored via VMware Tools.

Restoring files in this manner is rate-limited. To restore files with a total size of 10 GB or more, we recommend connecting to the recovery portal from the virtual machine and downloading the files. If the volume of files to be restored 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 → Cloud powered by VMware → Backups.
  2. Open the Files tab.
  3. Click Pick from list and select the virtual machine where the file is located.
  4. Click Mount.
  5. Find the directory and the file.
  6. If you need to restore multiple files from different directories, add the required files to the restore list using Add to restore list. All files will be displayed on the Pending Restore tab; you can restore or download them. The time required for local download of large files via a browser depends on the internet connection speed.