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Veeam – How to backup and restore Solaris/Linux guests using veeamzip ?

May 13, 2014 By Cloud_Devops Leave a Comment

In this second part of article, we will see how we can restore the complete VM from scratch using the full backup which we have took earlier.In my case, i don’t even having VM on vcenter server inventory.

1.open the Veeam Backup and Replication.

2.Click on the restore to launch the wizard.

Restore Wizard
Restore Wizard

 

3.Select the Entire VM (including registration) option.

Entire VM Recovery
Entire VM Recovery

4.Select the VM from backup which needs to be restore.

Select the backup
Select the backup

5.I had browse the backup repository and selected the VM backup file.

Select the Job Name
Select the Job Name

6.click on “point” to see what are the restore point you have for that VM.

Verify the restore point
Verify the restore point

7.Select the new location to restore the VM. Sometimes original location may not be available.

Restore to new location
Restore to new location

8.Select the VMware ESxi host where the VM guest needs to restore.

Select the ESXi host for restore
Select the ESXi host for restore

9.Select the resource pool for restore.

Select the resource pool
Select the resource pool

10.Select the datastore to restore.

Select the datastore
Select the datastore

11.You can also choose the folder where the VM needs to be created.

Select the folder location
Select the folder location

12.Select the Vm network for restore.

Select VM Network
Select VM Network

Enter the reason for restore of the VM.

Reason for Restore
Reason for Restore

13.Here is the summary of the VM.

summary of the restore
summary of the restore

Here is the logs of the VM restore.

Logs
Logs

After the restore, You can see  Oracle Solaris guest OS has been created.

 

Guest OS is back
Guest OS is back

Veeam is amazing backup software for virtualization environment. It has really helped us to restore the destroyed VM in quick time.

Hope this article will help of Veeam beginners to backup and restore the guest using veeam zip.

You can download a free trial Veeam Backup and replication7  from Veeam website.

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