Step 2. Select Restore Point

At the Virtual Machines step of the wizard, select a restore point that will be used to restore data. By default, Veeam Plug-In for Nutanix AHV uses the most recent valid restore point. However, you can restore the data to an earlier state.

Note

While creating a backup, Veeam Plug-In for Nutanix AHV takes a VM snapshot that is called backup snapshot. Veeam Plug-In for Nutanix AHV stores a recent backup snapshot for each backup job. Restore from a backup snapshot is significantly faster than restore from a backup.

To select a restore point, do the following:

Select the VM.
Click Restore Point.
In the Restore Points window, select the necessary restore point and click Apply.

To help you choose a restore point, Veeam Plug-In for Nutanix AHV provides the following information on each available restore point:

Job — the name of the backup job that created the restore point.
Type — the type of the restore point:

Backup — an image-level backup created by a backup job.

[Applies to the Prism Central deployment] Only backups are supported for restore to another cluster.

Snapshot — a snapshot created by a backup job.

Tip

By default, Veeam Plug-In for Nutanix AHV restores all disks attached to the selected VMs. If you want to exclude specific disks of a VM from restore, do the following. Select a VM, click Exclude Disks and select the disks to exclude.