Before You Begin
Before you start the restore process, check the following prerequisites:
- Multi-factor authentication (MFA) for the user account must be disabled before starting the configuration database restore process. To learn how to disable MFA, see Multi-Factor Authentication.
- Stop all jobs that are currently running. During restore of configuration, Veeam Backup & Replication temporary stops the Veeam Backup Service and jobs.
- On the backup server running Veeam Backup & Replication 13, you can only restore configuration backups created with Veeam Backup & Replication 13.
- Make sure that the certificate chain restored from a configuration backup will successfully pass validation on the target backup server. This precaution is required if the following conditions are met:
- You want to restore configuration database of a backup server used in the Veeam Agent management scenario.
- The backup server whose configuration database you want to restore uses a custom certificate issued by a Certificate Authority instead of the default self-signed certificate to ensure a secure connection in the Veeam Agent management infrastructure.
- If you plan to restore configuration data to the database on another PostgreSQL Server, make sure the account for using Veeam Backup & Replication has sufficient permissions. For more information, see Permissions.
- After you run configuration restore for capacity tier, Veeam Backup & Replication will put the capacity tier extents into the Sealed mode. Rescan the backup infrastructure and then remove the extents from the Sealed mode.
- If you use a Veeam Backup & Replication server as a Veeam repository, after restore to a new host this repository will be located in the same file path as it was before the migration.
- If you use Veeam plug-ins (Veeam Plug-in for Nutanix AHV and so on) and want to restore the configuration database to a new machine, make sure you have the plug-ins installed before the restoration process.
- If you configured the Security Officer account and want to restore the configuration database on another backup server, the target backup server must have Security Officer account configured as well.