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Recipe: Performing AWS EBS Volume Restore to a custom location

Expected deliverables:

An AWS EBS Volume recovered at the time of backup state to its original location.

Time to complete: 5 minutes

Ingredients:

• An AWS EC2 cloud-native snapshot or image-level backup
• A Worker Configuration in the same region and availability zone where VM will be restored, if restoring from an image-level backup.

Before you start:

You can restore one or more AWS EBS Volumes at once, to the original or to a new location.

Assumptions:

You have an existing Veeam Backup for AWS deployment, and backups of one or more AWS EC2 Instances.

Method:

1. Login the Veeam Backup for AWS web interface.
2. Navigate to Protected Data > EC2. Select the EC2 instance that you want to restore, and click Restore > Volume Restore.
3. At the Instances step
   • Select a restore point that will be used to restore EBS volumes of the selected EC2 instance (by default the most recent restore point).
   • If you want to restore only specific EBS volumes of the selected EC2 Instance, you can exclude the unnecessary disks from the restore process by clicking in Exclusions. Click Next.
4. At the Account step, choose whether you want to use an IAM role of an AWS account, an AWS account of an AWS Organization, or one-time access keys of an IAM user with enough privileges to perform the restore operation
5. At the Restore Mode step, choose to restore the EBS volumes to the original. Click Next.
6. At the Reason step, specify a reason for restoring the EBS volumes. Click Next.
7. At the Summary step, review summary information. Click Finish.

Links to Resources:

• Veeam Guides and Helpcenter
• Veeam Community Forums