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Recipe: Performing Entire AWS EC2 Instance Restore to the original location.
Expected deliverables:
An AWS EC2 Instance 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.
- Veeam Backup for AWS does not support restoring EC2 instances if the source instances have the termination protection and stop protection options enabled. You must disable both options on the source instances to allow Veeam to restore to the original location.
Before you start:
You can restore one or more AWS EC2 Instances 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:
- Login the Veeam Backup for AWS web interface.
- Navigate to Protected Data > EC2. Select the EC2 instance that you want to restore, and click Restore > Instance Restore.
- At the Instances step, select a restore point that will be used to restore the selected EC2 instance (by default the most recent restore point). Click Next.
- 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
- At the Restore Mode step, choose to restore the selected EC2 instance to the original location. Click Next.
- In case the original AMI that was used to create the source EC2 instance hasn’t been found, then at the Settings step, select an AMI that will be used to launch the restored EC2 instance.
- At the Reason step, specify a reason for restoring the EC2 instance. Click Next.
- At the Summary step, review summary information. Optionally you can click the Power on target instances after restoring check box to start the restored EC2 instance immediately after restore process completes. Click Finish.
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