Step 4. Specify Restore Options

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

1. In the Restore mode section, specify whether to overwrite groups or skip restore of the already existing groups.

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 groups within the current tenant, click Keep Relationships. Veeam Backup & Replication will restore the following relationships: assigned roles, the membership in a parent group, memberships in admin units, child groups, user members of the group and group owners. Note that Veeam Backup & Replication restores only relationships — if a role, user, group or admin unit does not exist, it will not be restored.

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

• To restore groups from the Entra ID recycle bin instead of the backup, click Restore from Entra ID Recycle Bin. In this case, if the groups 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 get new object IDs.