Entire VM Restore

To restore a VM, Veeam Backup for Proxmox VE performs the following steps:

1. [This step applies only if you perform restore to the original location and if the source VM is still present in the location] Connects to the Proxmox VE server over REST API to power off and remove the source VM.
2. Launches a worker on same host where the processed VM resides.

If no worker is deployed on the host, Veeam Backup for Proxmox VE launches a worker that is deployed on any other Proxmox VE host connected to the backup infrastructure.

3. Connects to the Proxmox VE server over REST API, configures a VM and creates empty virtual disks in the target location.

The number of empty disks equals the number of disks attached to the backed-up VM.

4. Restores backed-up data to the empty disks and restores them to the configured VM.

If multiple disks are attached to the backed-up VM, these disks are restored sequentially, one disk at a time.

5. Suspends the worker when the restore session completes.

To learn how to restore an entire VM, see Performing VM Restore.