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Performing Instance Restore

In case a disaster strikes, you can restore an entire VM instance from a cloud-native snapshot or an image-level backup. Veeam Backup & Replication allows you to restore one or more VM instances at a time, to the original location or to a new location.

Important

When restoring a VM instance, Veeam Backup for Google Cloud recovers data from all zonal and regional persistent disks (standard, balanced, extreme and SSD) attached to the instance. However, due to technical reasons, when it comes to local SSDs (SCSI and NVMe), Veeam Backup for Google Cloud is able to recover only the configuration of these disks, which means that any data stored on the disks is lost during the restore process.

How Instance Restore Works

To restore VM instances from cloud-native snapshots, Veeam Backup & Replication uses native Google Cloud capabilities. To restore VM instances from image-level backups, Veeam Backup & Replication uses different algorithms depending on whether a Veeam Backup for Google Cloud appliance is added to the backup infrastructure:

If the Veeam Backup for Google Cloud appliance is connected to the backup server, Veeam Backup & Replication uses the restore algorithm described in the Veeam Backup for Google Cloud User Guide, section Performing Instance Restore.
If the Veeam Backup for Google Cloud appliance is not connected to the backup server, Veeam Backup & Replication uses the restore algorithm described in the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide, section How Restore to Google Compute Engine Works.

How to Perform Instance Restore

To restore an entire VM instance, do the following: