This is an archive version of the document. Starting from version 7, the Veeam Plug-In for oVirt KVM User Guide is part of the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide. To get the most up-to-date information, see the current version.

Performing Restore

In various disaster recovery scenarios, Veeam Backup for OLVM and RHV allows you to perform the following operations using backed-up data:

Entire VM restore — recover oVirt VMs to the original location or to a new location.

VM disk restore — recover a specific VM disk and attach it to the original VM or to another VM.
Instant VM recovery — instantly start an oVirt VM directly from a backup.
Disk publishing — mount specific disks of a backed-up oVirt VMs to any server added to the backup infrastructure.
File-level restore — recover individual VM guest OS files and folders.
Application items restore — restore applications, such as Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SharePoint, and Microsoft SQL Server.
VM disk export — restore VM disks and convert them to disks of the VMDK, VHD or VHDX format.
Performing VM Restore to Amazon Web Services — restore oVirt VMs to Amazon Web Services as EC2 instances.
Performing VM Restore to Microsoft Azure — restore oVirt VMs to Microsoft Azure as Azure VMs.
Performing VM Restore to Google Cloud — restore oVirt VMs to Google Cloud as VM instances.

You can restore VM data to the most recent state or to any available restore point.