The Veeam Cookbook Series

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Recipe: Restore a VM with Secure Restore

A restored VMware virtual machine in the same location and checked for malware before bringing back to the production environment.

Time to complete: 10 minutes

Ingredients:

Before you start:

With this procedure you will overwrite the status of exisiting virtual machines if they are still present the source environment.

Assumptions:

You have a Veeam Backup and Replication server installed.
The vSphere infrastructure have been added to the backup infrastructure and properly configured.

Method:

Open the Veeam Backup & Replication Console and select Home on the bottom left menu.
Click Restore and select VMware vSphere > Restore from backup > Entire VM restore > Entire VM restore
In the Virtual Machines step:
- Click in Add -> From backup… to open the selection of available backups. Choose the desired VM from one of the backups and click Add.
- In the Virtual machines to restore list, select a VM and click in Point, then select a restore point from which you want to restore the VM and click OK. Click Next.
In the Restore Mode step, select Restore to the original location and click Next. In the Secure Restore you can instruct Veeam Backup & Replication to scan machine data for malware activity before restoration. Choose between the following options:
- either Scan restore points with Veeam Threat Hunter (if Veeam Threat Hunter is configured) or Scan restore points with your existing antivirus software
- Scan the restore point with the following YARA rule to use YARA as a scan engine Choose between Proceed to recovery but disable VM network adapters and Abort VM recovery if scan finds a virus threat, then click Next.
In the Reason step, enter a reason for performing the Instant Recovery and click Next.
Choose if the target VMs should be powered on, and then click Finish.

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