Step 4. Specify Recovery Options

At the Backup Server step of the wizard, choose a backup server that will manage the process of recovering machines to Microsoft Azure and a backup repository where the restore points of these machines will be stored. By default, the backup repository is selected automatically depending on the restore points of the VMs processed during restore operations. However, you can also instruct Orchestrator to look through specific restore points only.

To specify a backup server and a backup repository, do the following:

Click the link in the Backup server field, set the Automatic selection toggle to Disable, select the necessary backup server and click Apply. Note that one recovery location can be associated with one Veeam Backup & Replication server only.

For a Veeam Backup & Replication server to be displayed in the list of available servers, it must be added to Orchestrator as described in section Connecting Veeam Backup & Replication Servers.

Important

To restore workloads to Microsoft Azure, you must add a Microsoft Azure compute account to Veeam Backup & Replication. When you add an Azure compute account, Veeam Backup & Replication imports information about subscriptions and resources associated with this account.

If you do not add a compute account to the configuration of a Veeam Backup & Replication server, you will not be able to choose the server when creating a Microsoft Azure recovery location. For more information on adding Microsoft Azure compute accounts, see the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide, section Microsoft Azure Compute Accounts.

The added account must have the permissions required to access Microsoft Azure resources. For more information, see the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide, section Creating Custom Role for Azure Account.

Click the link in the Backup repositories field, set the Automatic selection toggle to Disable, select the necessary repository and click Apply. Note that one recovery location can be associated with multiple backup repositories.

You can use directly attached storage (Windows, Linux), object storage (Veeam Data Cloud Vault, Microsoft Azure, Wasabi) and scale-out backup repositories. Tape and deduplicating storage appliances are not supported.

For a backup repository to be displayed in the list of the available repositories, it must be added to the backup infrastructure as described in section Adding Backup Repositories.

Important

For Veeam Backup & Replication to be able to access the selected repositories using your cloud accounts, the credentials of these accounts must be kept up to date. This means that if you update credentials of a cloud account that is used to connect to a cloud service, you must also update these credentials in the Veeam Backup & Replication console as described in the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide, section Cloud Credentials Manager.

Additionally, you can configure the following settings:

Choose whether you want Orchestrator to use backup files created by backup jobs, their copies created by backup copy jobs or files that are stored in scale-out backup repositories. Alternatively, you can choose to let the product select the files automatically, based on the most recent restore points.

For more information on the way Orchestrator selects backup files and restore points to recover machines when performing restore operations, see How Orchestrator Selects Backup Files.

Choose whether you want to specify an Microsoft Azure proxy appliance that will be used to transfer VM data to the recovery location.

By default, the proxy appliance is selected automatically by Veeam Backup & Replication. However, you can also instruct Veeam Backup & Replication to use a specific proxy to speed up the recovery process — to do that, click the link in the Cloud proxy field, set the Automatic selection toggle to Disable, select the necessary proxy and click Apply.

For more information on Azure proxy appliances, see the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide, section Managing Azure Restore Proxy Appliances.

Important

To be able to recover Linux workloads, you must configure a Linux helper appliance when adding a Microsoft Azure compute account to the backup infrastructure.