Disk Restore
To restore disks from a cloud-native snapshot, Veeam Plug-In for Google Cloud uses native Google Cloud capabilities. To restore disks from an image-level backup, Veeam Plug-In for Google Cloud performs the following steps:
- Deploys a worker instance within the worker project in the Google Cloud region in which the restored disks will reside.
For more information on how to specify a project for worker instances, see Managing Worker Configurations.
- Creates empty disks and attaches them to the worker instance.
The number of empty disks equals the number of disks you want to restore.
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Every time before creating disks, Veeam Plug-In for Google Cloud checks whether the total size of pd-standard disks breaches the zone quota for the project in which the worker instance is deployed. If the total disk size is less than 1500 GB, Veeam Plug-In for Google Cloud temporarily attaches an additional empty disk to the worker instance — but only for the duration of the restore process and if the quota allows attaching the disk. This allows Veeam Plug-In for Google Cloud to speed up the data transfer to reduce your restore costs. |
- Restores backed-up data to the empty disks on the worker instance.
- Takes cloud-native snapshots of the disks with the restored data.
- Creates disks from snapshots in the target location (that is, the project and region specified for the restore operation).
- Removes the worker instance from Google Cloud.
- Removes all the created snapshots from Google Cloud Storage.
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Veeam Plug-In for Google Cloud does not attach the restored disks to any VM instances — the disks are placed to the specified location as standalone disks. |
To learn how to restore disks attached to a VM instance from a cloud-native snapshot or an image-level backup, see Performing Disk Restore.