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Restoring Microsoft SQL Server Items

To restore databases from a backup or replica of a Microsoft SQL Server, Veeam Backup & Replication uses Veeam Explorer for Microsoft SQL Server.

Important

Consider the following:

Veeam Explorer for Microsoft SQL Server does not show and restore the system databases (master, model, msdb). To recover the system databases, use Guest OS File Recovery.
Before you restore Microsoft SQL databases, check requirements and limitations listed in the Planning and Preparation section in the Veeam Backup Explorers User Guide. One of the main requirements is that the backup or replica must be created with application-aware processing enabled.

To launch Veeam Explorer for Microsoft SQL Server from Veeam Backup & Replication:

Open the Home view.
In the inventory pane, select the Backups or Replicas node.
In the working area, select the necessary machine in the backup or VM replica and click Application Items > Microsoft SQL Server on the ribbon. Alternatively, right-click the machine or VM replica and select Restore application items > Microsoft SQL Server databases.
In the opened Microsoft SQL Server Database Restore wizard, select a restore point from which you want to restore databases.

Then Veeam Backup & Replication opens Veeam Explorer for Microsoft SQL Server. In this explorer, you can view, restore databases and so on. The detailed information is provided in the Veeam Explorer for Microsoft SQL Server main section of the Veeam Backup Explorers User Guide. For example:

Information about database is in the Viewing Database Information section.

Information about restoring process is in the Data Restore section.

Information about adding a database manually is in the Adding Standalone Databases section.