Performing Instant Recovery of Workloads to Proxmox VE

You can immediately restore virtual or physical machines into a Proxmox VE host by running it directly from a compressed and deduplicated backup file. You can perform Instant Recovery directly from the Veeam Backup & Replication web UI. Before you perform Instant Recovery, check the following prerequisites:

The cluster runs Proxmox Virtual Environment versions 8.2–9 or later.
The cluster is added to the backup infrastructure.

Supported Workloads

To recover machines to a Veeam Plug-in for Proxmox VE host, you can use the following backups:

Backups of Proxmox VE VMs created by Veeam Plug-in for Proxmox VE
Backups of Nutanix AHV VMs created by Veeam Plug-in for Nutanix AHV
Backups of oVirt VMs created by Veeam Plug-in for oVirt KVM
Backups of HPE Morpheus VM Essentials VMs created by Veeam Plug-in for HPE Morpheus VM Essentials
Backups of Sangfor aSV VMs created by Veeam Plug-in for Sangfor aSV
Backups of Scale Computing HyperCore VMs created by Veeam Plug-in for Scale Computing HyperCore
Backups of VMs created by universal hypervisor
Backups of Xen and XCP-ng VMs created by Veeam Plug-in for Xen
Backups of VMs residing on universal hypervisors created by Veeam Plug-in for Universal Hypervisor API
Backups of Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware vSphere VMs created by Veeam Backup & Replication
Backups of virtual and physical machines created by Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows and Veeam Agent for Linux
Backups of VMware Cloud Director VMs created by Veeam Backup & Replication
Backups of Amazon EC2 instances created by Veeam Plug-in for AWS
Backups of Microsoft Azure VMs created by Veeam Plug-in for Microsoft Azure
Backups of Google Cloud VM instances created by Veeam Plug-in for Google Cloud

Instant Recovery is not supported:

From backups of VMs with the ARM CPU architecture
From file-level backups created by Kasten 10, Veeam Agent for Linux, Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows, Veeam Agent for Unix, Veeam Agent for Mac

Note

Instant Recovery to Proxmox VE is supported only for backups stored in backup repositories, object storage repositories, external repositories, Veeam Cloud Connect repositories, HPE Cloud Bank Storage and a scale-out backup repository (performance, capacity or archive tier). Instant Recovery from backups stored on tapes is not supported.

How Instant Recovery Works

When Instant Recovery is performed, Veeam Plug-in for Proxmox VE mounts a workload image to a mount server directly from a compressed and deduplicated backup file. Since there is no need to extract the workload from the backup file and copy it to production storage, you can perform recovery from any restore point in a matter of minutes.

The workload image remains in the read-only state to avoid unexpected modifications. By default, all changes to virtual disks that take place while the recovered workload is running are logged to auxiliary redo log files residing on the host. These changes are either merged if you choose to migrate the workload to the production environment, or discarded if you choose to revert the recovery operation.

How to Perform Instant Recovery

To perform Instant Recovery of a protected workload, do the following: