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Recipe: Restore an Entire Proxmox VE VM to a new location
Expected deliverables:
An entire Proxmox VE Virtual Machine restored from a Veeam Backup to a new location or with different settings.
Time to complete: 5 minutes
Ingredients:
- A Proxmox VE server added to the backup infrastructure.
- You need the VM has at least one successfully created restore point.
- A target Proxmox VE server, storage and network for the restored VM.
Assumptions:
You have a Veeam Backup and Replication server installed.
Method:
- Open the Veeam Backup & Replication Console and select Home on the bottom left menu.
- Select Backups in the inventory pane, expand the necessary backup job, right-click the VM you want to restore and select Restore entire VM > Proxmox VE.
- In the Virtual Machines step, the selected VM is listed.
- If you want to add more VMs to be recovered concurrently, 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, to select a restore point (by default Veeam uses the latest valid restore point) and click OK. Click Next.
- In the Restore Mode step, select Restore to a new location, or with different settings and click Next.
- In the Host step, select the target Proxmox VE server. Click Next.
- In the Storage step, select the target storage for the restored VM disks. Click Next.
- In the Name step, specify a new name for the restored VM if required. Click Next.
- In the Network step, map the source network to a network in the target location, or select to disconnect the VM from the network. Click Next.
- In the Reason step, enter a reason for performing the restore and click Next.
- In the Summary step, select Power on target VM after restoring if required, review the details and click Finish.
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