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Recipe: Restoring the Veeam Backup for Google Cloud configuration data
Expected deliverables:
Restore the Veeam Backup for Google Cloud configuration by using a configuration backup.
Time to complete: 5 minutes
Ingredients:
- Access to Veeam Backup & Replication Console
- A Configuration Backup previously created either automatically or manually using Veeam Backup & Replication.
- If you want to restore the configuration of the backup appliance to another one, you must remove the initial appliance from the backup infrastructure beforehand
Before you start: Before you start the restore process, stop all backup policies that are currently running and make sure that there are no backup policies scheduled to run during restore.
Assumptions: You have an existing Veeam Backup for Google Cloud deployment.
Method:
- In the Veeam Backup & Replication console, go to the Backup Infrastructure view and navigate to Managed Servers > GCP
- Select a backup appliance for which you want to perform the restore operation, right-click on it and select Restore Configuration
- At the Configuration Backup step, select a Backup Repository which contains the Configuration Backup, then click in Browse and select the necessary file.
- At the Backup Content step, review the information and click in Next.
- At the Password step, provide the password used to encrypt the Configuration Backup.
- At the Restore Options step, as an option you can also enable the restore of Local Portal Users and Session History. By default this procedure just restore configuration data.
- If you have selected to restore also Local Users, then in the Credentials step you need to provide an account with the role of Portal Administrator for the appliance. If the account provided doesn’t exist in the backup appliance, then it will be created automatically.
- At the Restore step, you can keep track of the progress of configuration restore operation.
- Click in Next and Finish to complete the wizard.
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