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Restore to Original Folder and Overwrite Original Files recovers a virtual machine backup to its original location on the vCenter. This operation rolls the virtual machines that you backed up with the protection policy in
PowerProtect Data Manager to an earlier point in time. Use this process for restoring the production system.
NOTE If the original virtual machine was deleted, a
Restore to Original Folder and Overwrite Original Files recovery attempts to re-create the virtual machine. However, if the original virtual machine resources such as the datastore and cluster are no longer available, the restore fails and a
Restore to New is required.
Steps
From the
PowerProtect Data Manager UI, select
Restore > Assets, and then select the
Virtual Machine tab.
The
Restore window displays all virtual machines available for restore.
Select the checkbox next to the appropriate virtual machines and click
Restore.
You can also use the filter in the
Name column to search for the asset name of the specific virtual machine or use the
File Search button to search on specific criteria for files within backed-up virtual machines.
The
Restore wizard appears.
On the
Select Copy page, for each virtual machine that is listed in the table, select the radio button next to the virtual machine and click
Choose Copy.
The
Choose Copy dialog box appears.
NOTE If you click
Next without choosing a copy, the most recent backup copy is used.
If the backup is on a
DD system, click
DD, and then select from one of the available copies that display in the table.
Click
OK to save the selection and exit the dialog, and then click
Next.
On the
Purpose page, select
Restore Entire VMs to restore the image-level virtual machine backup to the original location, and then click
Next.
NOTE If you specified any disk exclusions in the virtual machine protection policy, a message appears indicating that disks were excluded from this backup. If one of the excluded disks was a boot disk, the restore might not complete successfully.
The
Restore Type page appears.
On the
Restore Type page:
Select
Restore to Original Folder and Overwrite Original Files.
NOTE If the system determines that the original virtual machine datastore(s) may be insufficient to complete the restore a warning is displayed. In this case, create more space in the original datastore(s), and then, select
Proceed Anyways.
Select the
Restore VM Tags checkbox to restore vCenter tags and categories associated with this backup copy. Tags are backed up by default as part of the virtual machine protection policy backup.
NOTE You can only select this option when restoring entire virtual machines. Any existing tags and categories on the assets in the restore location will be replaced with the tags and categories from the assets in the restored copy. If the tags and categories being restored do not exist in the vCenter Server at the time of the restore, or have been deleted, they will be re-created as part of the restore, along with the tag description and the cardinality settings that determine the relationship of tags within a category. If tags and categories on the vCenter have been renamed since the last backup, the renamed tags and categories will not be overwritten upon restore. For example, if a tag's ID is the same but the tag's name has been changed since the backup, a new tag is created based on the tag name in the backup copy being restored.
Upon successful restore, the replaced tags and categories will not be deleted in the
vSphere Client, and can be viewed in the
Tags & Custom Attributes window, or the
Tags pane of the
Summary window when the virtual machine is selected.
Select
Restore Storage Policies if you also want to restore any virtual machine disk-level or non-disk specific storage policy assignments.
If you select this option but the backup copy was taken with
PowerProtect Data Manager 19.5 and earlier, or the storage policy is not available, the virtual machine restore will proceed but any storage policy association will not be restored.
NOTE Enabling this option requires vCenter version 6.7 and later.
For low-bandwidth environments, select
Enable DDBoost Compression.
This option reduces network usage by compressing data on the
protection storage system before transfer to the
VM Direct Engine, which decompresses the data. Compression reduces restore times but increases CPU usage on both systems.
Click
Next.
The
Networks page appears if the virtual machine was backed up using
PowerProtect Data Manager 19.9 or later. Otherwise, the
Options page appears.
The
Networks page displays the network adaptors and associated networks the virtual machine had used when it was backed up. Click
Next after reviewing this information and optionally performing one or both of the following actions.
NOTE If a network used by an adapter is no longer accessible to the current virtual machine, a warning is displayed, and a different network should be selected for that adapter.
To select a different network, click the associated drop-down control in the
Network column, and then select an entry from the list.
To change the initial power-on connection status of a network adapter, select or clear the associated check box in the
Connect at Power On column.
If the current virtual-machine disk configuration is identical to the copy being restored, the
Summary page appears, but if there is a mismatch, the
Options page appears. This page displays the current configuration of the virtual machine along with any disks that have been added since the last backup.
On the
Options page, for any hard disks in the current virtual machine configuration that were not part of the backup copy:
Select
Delete disks that will be detached to remove these disks upon restore.
Clear
Delete disks that will be detached to keep these disks in their original folders on the virtual machine after the restore. These disks will not be in the virtual machine configuration, but after the restore you can then use the
vSphere Client to manually reattach or download these disks as appropriate.
Click
Next.
The
Summary page appears with a confirmation message indicating that the virtual machine will be powered off and that the virtual machine in the datastore will revert to the point in time of the selected backup copy before being powered back on.
On the
Summary page, click
Restore.
An informational dialog box appears indicating that the restore has started.
Go to the
Jobs window to monitor the restore.
A restore job appears with a progress bar and start time.
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