Performing Restore

In various disaster recovery scenarios, you can perform the following restore operations using backed-up data:

Restore of VM instances — restore VM instances, disks and files from cloud-native snapshots or image-level backups to the original location or to a new location.
Restore of Cloud SQL instances — restore Cloud SQL instances (from cloud-native snapshots or image-level backups) and Cloud SQL databases (from image-level backups) to the original location or to a new location.
Restore of Cloud Spanner instances — restore Cloud Spanner instances (from cloud-native snapshots or image-level backups) and Cloud Spanner databases (from cloud-native snapshots or image-level backups) to the original location or to a new location.
Instant Recovery — immediately restore VM instances from image-level backups to VMware vSphere and Hyper-V environments, and to Nutanix AHV clusters.
VM instance disk export — restore virtual disks and convert them to disks of the VMDK, VHD or VHDX format.
Disk publishing — publish point-in-time disks and copy the necessary files and folders to the target server.
Restore to AWS — restore VM instances from image-level backups to AWS as EC2 instances.
Restore to Microsoft Azure — restore VM instances from image-level backups to Microsoft Azure as Azure VMs.
Restore to Nutanix AHV — restore VM instances from image-level backups to Nutanix AHV as Nutanix AHV VMs.