VAS - Restore from backup
Updated: 2021-01-13
Once you have Setup a simple backup job, the next set of steps will be to test or restore from the backup. If you recall in the backup job we focused on two types of items to add.
- a vApp (which is the vApp and ALL of the Virtual Machines in it)
- a VM (this will also include information about the vApp the VM is contained in)
Knowing the types of backups that we have in place; we can now look at the use cases in which we can restore. We can confirm our requirements are met or take an action item to modify existing backups or add additional.
Backup and Restore matrix
The following is a table that reflects what use cases are covered when trying to restore from a backup job.
The header describes the type of VM/vApp backup job was created as well as the types of restores that are compatible with the backup jobs.
| vCD Action Create |
Veeam Job Type |
vCD Action Delete |
Restore VM Keep |
Restore VM Overwrite |
Restore vApp Keep |
Restore vApp Overwrite |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Create vApp & VM | ||||||
| Backed up VM | ||||||
| Nothing | Supported | Supported | Supported | Supported | ||
| VM (only) | Supported | Supported | Supported | Supported | ||
| vApp and VM | NOT Supported | NOT Supported | Supported | Supported | ||
| Backed up vApp (includes VM) |
||||||
| Nothing | Supported | Supported | Supported | Supported | ||
| VM (only) | Supported | Supported | Supported | Supported | ||
| vApp and VM | NOT Supported | NOT Supported | Supported | Supported | ||
| Create VM Only (no explicit vApp) |
||||||
| Backed up VM | ||||||
| Nothing | Supported | Supported | Supported | Supported | ||
| VM (only) | NOT Supported | NOT Supported | Supported | Supported | ||
| vApp and VM | NOT Applicable | NOT Applicable | NOT Applicable | NOT Applicable | ||
| Backed up vApp (includes VM) |
||||||
| Nothing | Supported | Supported | Supported | Supported | ||
| VM (only) | NOT Supported | NOT Supported | Supported | Supported | ||
| vApp and VM | NOT Applicable | NOT Applicable | NOT Applicable | NOT Applicable |
- Supported = The use case and is expected to work, it not working please open a ticket.
- NOT Applicable = no vApp visible to delete
- NOT Supported = VM cannot be restored to the original location, because it is no longer available.
Once you have had a chance to review this table, lets look at a couple of examples on how to restore successfully.
Restore and Keep
Restore and Replace
Note the information described in this example are guidelines. There are multiple ways to configure the various parts of the example. Please adjust accordingly for your needs.