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Recipe: Perform a Failback from a replicated VM to the original VM in Production

Expected deliverables:

Running a Failback of a Virtual Machine replicated with a Veeam Replication Job to move all processes back from the replica VM in the disaster recovery site to the original VM in the production site.

Time to complete: 15 minutes

Ingredients:

• Virtual Machine to be recovered must have been replicated with a Veeam Replication Job successfully at least once.
• VM replicas must be in the Failover state after running a replica failover

Before you start:

Select this option if you want to fail back to the source VMs that reside on the source hosts

Assumptions:

It’s assumed that you already have performed a Failover of the replicated VM.

Method:

1. Open the Veeam Backup & Replication Console.
2. On the Home tab, click Restore > VMware vSphere > Restore from replica > Entire replica > Failback to production.
3. At the Replica step, select replicas from which you want to fail back. Click Next.
4. At the Destination step, select Failback to the original VM. To select which backup proxies will be used for data transfer, click Pick backup proxies for data transfer. By default, Veeam selects proxies automatically.
5. At the Failback Mode step, specify when switch from replicas to production VMs must be performed, either Auto (default), Scheduled or Manual. Click Next
6. At the Summary step, review the configured failback settings and click Finish. If you want to power on the production VMs right after the switch to production operation is performed, select the Power on target VM after restoring check box

Important: Failback is an intermediate step that needs to be finalized. You can finalize failback in the following way:

• Commit Failback
• Undo Failback

Links to Resources:

• Veeam Guides and Helpcenter
• Veeam Community Forums
• Veeam Best Practices

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