Step 4. Specify Restore Options

At the Options step of the wizard, configure restore options such as how to restore applications and service principals, their relationships and other:

1. In the Restore mode section, specify whether to overwrite applications and service principals or skip restore of the already existing items.

When you select the overwrite option, Veeam Backup & Replication updates fields present in the backup. If a field in the backup is empty, it will be restored as empty. However, Veeam Backup & Replication does not update read-only fields (the ID, creation date and so on) and fields that are not present in the backup.

2. In the Advanced options section, configure the following:

• To restore relationships of applications and service principals within the current tenant, click Keep Relationships. Veeam Backup & Replication will restore the following relationships: for applications — user owner of the application; for service principals — user owner of the service principal, assigned users and groups, and the related application. Note that Veeam Backup & Replication restores only relationships — if a user, group or application does not exist, it will not be restored.

If you have selected to overwrite the applications and service principals, Veeam Backup & Replication will restore the relationships from the backup and will remove the relationships not present in the backup.

• To restore applications and service principals from the Entra ID recycle bin instead of the backup, click Restore from Entra ID Recycle Bin. In this case, if the applications or service principals exist in both the recycle bin and the backup, they will be restored from the recycle bin and will preserve their object IDs. Otherwise, they will be restored from the backup and will get new object IDs.