Step 3. Choose Recovery Options

At the Recovery Options step, do the following:

• Choose whether you want to enable Instant VM Recovery for the location.

With Instant VM Recovery, all processed machines will be immediately restored in the location by running directly from the backup files. Instant VM Recovery helps improve recovery time objectives (RTO), minimize disruption and downtime of the machines. For more information on the Instant VM Recovery feature, see the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide, section Instant VM Recovery.

• Choose whether you want to prefer backup files produced by backup copy jobs over files produced by backup jobs.

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 enable VM recovery to a different infrastructure location in Veeam Backup & Replication.

To control data migration in the virtual infrastructure, Veeam Backup & Replication introduces infrastructure locations. A location defines a geographic region where an infrastructure object resides. To learn how to create and assign locations to infrastructure objects in Veeam Backup & Replication, see the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide, section Locations. To learn how to track geographical locations of production data, their copies and replicas, see the Veeam ONE Reporter User Guide, sections Data Sovereignty Overview and Data Sovereignty Violations.