OpenStack Full Instance Restore

To restore one or a group of OpenStack VMs, please go to VM Backup > Restore > Full Restore page to create a full Instance restore job. Please follow the below steps to create the job.

Step 1. Select Restore Point

In the Restore Point dropdown list, select a backup node which stores the desired restore points.

Select a target Instance restore point under the OpenStack cloud platform which you want to restore. You can quickly find the target restore point by searching the job name, Instance name or the date of the restore point in the search box.

You can restore a group of Instances by selecting one of the restore points under each of the Instances. After selecting the desired restore point under virtual machine which you want to recover, click Next to continue.

Step 2. Select Restore Destination

In the Target Host list, select a target host on which you wish to run the restored Instances. After selecting the target host, Vinchin Backup & Recovery will request resources information from the host, the whole process will take a few seconds.

When done selecting the restore destination, users can directly click on Next to continue, as the other settings in this step are optional. Vinchin Backup & Recovery will automatically configure the Instance with the original (default) and recommended settings. But if needed, users can customized the Instances settings, like type of Instance Flavor, type of Boot Source, target datastore, target virtual network, etc.

Unified Configurations: If you are restoring a group of Instances, enable this option you can set the Instances to be restored to a unified datastore and virtual network, and also can set the unified power state of the Instances to be restored.

VM Configurations: Here you can setup advanced restore options for specific Instance(s) by clicking on the Instance name, modifying the settings of one Instance will not affect the unified configurations of the other Instances if you had enabled Unified Configurations option.

Name & Status: You can set a customized name for the Instance to be restored and set its power state after restoring. By default, the restored Instance name will be original Instance name with a suffix of the time when the backup was created, as for power state, the restored Instances will be in powered off state.

Instance Flavor: Here you are allowed to select the instance type of flavors to be restored if necessary.

Virtual Disk: In the Disk(s) column, there are checkboxes for the Instance virtual disks, when a Instance has multiple disks, you can choose to restore specific disk(s) of the Instance. But if you don’t restore the disk on which the operating system is installed, the restored Instance will not be bootable, you need to re-install a new operating system or mount the restored disk to another Instance to be able to access this virtual disk. In Restore To column, you can select datastore to which the virtual disk will be restored. By default, Vinchin will automatically select a datastore to restore the Instance virtual disks. By clicking on Advanced, you can setup the disk provisioning options. But the virtual disk interface type cannot be configured, it should be kept as original interface type.

Virtual Network: Virtual network settings allow you to select the virtual network to be connected to and the MAC address assignment of the restored Instance. In the Connect to column, you can select a desired virtual network for specific virtual network interface of the Instance, by default it will automatically select one from the available virtual networks. By clicking on Advanced, you can setup the MAC address assignment for the virtual network interface. By default, the virtual platform will auto generate a new MAC address for the Instance, but you can also use the original MAC address or customize the Instance MAC address if you prefer.

Other Settings: If the VM backup data is encrypted (Data Encryption enabled in backup job), when restoring the VM you need to provide the data encryption password in the Encryption password field for verification, otherwise without the data encryption password, the VM cannot be restored. If the backup data has not been encrypted, the Encryption password option will not be shown. Availability Zone to seclect Instance Availability zone and Volume Availability Zone. Gues OS Type used for extra cross-platform restore. Please contact Vinchin Technical Support for more information.

Step 3. Configure Restore Strategy

For the job schedule, you can configure the VM restore job as once-off restore or restore as scheduled.

If you choose Once-off Restore, the restore job will start running right after the job has been created. If you choose Restore As Scheduled, you need to set restore schedules. After this, the job will run as scheduled.

Notice

A "once-off" restore job will run only once and will only restore the selected Instance(s) for one time, after that the job will be moved into history job list as a history record. But a "restore as scheduled" restore job will run and restore the selected Instance(s) regularly according to the time schedules, so, users should be aware of that, a "restore as scheduled" job could cause IP and MAC address conflict in your production environments and could generate a lot of duplicated data!

For Throttling Policy and Advanced Strategy, these settings are optional, throttling policy works the same principle as for VM backup jobs, for advanced strategy, users can configure multithreaded transmission for the VM restore job, and it also works the same principle as for the VM backup jobs.

For Transmission Strategy of a OpenStack Instance restore job, users can choose among LAN, SAN (LAN-free), and also optionally use the Backup Proxy for OpenStack. For more detailed explanation of the transmission strategy, please refer to Data Transmission.

Step 4. Review and Confirm Job Settings

After finishing the above settings, you are able to review and confirm all settings here. Click on Submit to confirm creating this job. When the job is created, you will be redirected to the Monitor Center > Jobs page. If this VM restore job is configured as Once-off Restore, it will start restoring the Instance(s) right after the creation of this job.