Running Cloud Restore

The Run action causes machines in a plan to recover from their backup files. For more information on the data recovery process, see the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide, section Data Recovery.

To run a cloud plan:

Navigate to Recovery Plans.
Select the plan. From the Launch menu, select Run.

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Click the plan name to switch to the Plan Details page, and click Run.

Complete the Run Plan wizard:

[This step applies only if you have not enabled the plan before running it]

At the Plan Disabled step, select the Enable this Plan check box.

For security purposes, at the Credentials step, retype your password.

At the Readiness Check step, review the results of the most recent readiness check run for the plan to make sure the plan will be able to complete successfully.

At the Recovery Location step, select a location to which inventory groups included in the plan will be restored.

For a recovery location to be displayed in the list of available locations, it must be created and added to the list of inventory items available for the scope, as described in section Managing Recovery Locations.

If the selected recovery location includes multiple proxies, Orchestrator will use the round-robin algorithm to restore machines added to the plan. For more information, see How Orchestrator Places VMs During Cloud Restore.

At the Restore Point step, choose a restore point that will be used to recover machines.

Important

Recovering data from the archive tier is not supported. If you select the Use most recent Restore Point before option, make sure to choose a restore point that is stored in either the capacity or the performance tier. For more information on Veeam Backup & Replication tiering options, see the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide, section Scale-Out Backup Repository.

[This step applies only if you have any other recovery plans scheduled to run after the plan completes]

At the Chained Plans step, select the Also execute the chained plans check box to proceed to the execution of subsequent plans after the current plan enters the RESTORED state.

At the Malware Scan step, choose whether you want to check restore points created for machines included in the plan for malware flags. You can also decide whether you want to scan these restore points with antivirus software, a YARA rule or both.

By default, Orchestrator checks a maximum of 10 recently created restore points for each machine. If no clean restore point is found, Orchestrator performs the following actions depending on whether you have specified a quarantine network when configuring the cloud recovery location:

In case you have specified a quarantine network, Orchestrator connects the machine to the network.
In case you have not specified a quarantine network, Orchestrator halts the plan and cancels the restore operation.

For more information on how Orchestrator performs malware scan, see Overview.

Note

When you connect to a Veeam Backup & Replication server, Orchestrator automatically collects YARA rules that were added to the server. If you have connected multiple Veeam Backup & Replication servers, Orchestrator will display all available YARA rules. If there are multiple YARA rules with the same name, they will be displayed as one rule.
Make sure that the selected rule exists on the Veeam Backup & Replication server that will manage the recovery process.

At the Summary step, review configuration information and click Finish.

The plan goal is to reach the RESTORED state. If any critical error is encountered, the plan will stop with the HALTED state. To learn how to work with HALTED cloud plans, see Managing Halted Plans.