Proxmox VM Restore as Virtual Disk in Backup Agent

Managed Backup offers restores of Proxmox virtual machine backups as virtual disks. You can mount this disk as a virtual drive or use it in your virtual machine environment later on.

The following virtual file formats are supported:

• Hyper-V Virtual Disk (VHD-format), dynamic
• Hyper-V Virtual Disk (VHD-format), fixed
• Hyper-V Virtual Disk (VHDX-format), dynamic
• RAW disk image, raw
• RAW disk image, rawsparse
• RAW disk image, tar
• RAW disk image, tgz
• VirtualBox Virtual Disk, dynamic
• VirtualBox Virtual Disk, fixed
• VMWare Virtual Disk, vmfsdynamic
• VMWare Virtual Disk, vmfsfixed

Create Restore Plan

To create a new restore plan, click the Restore icon in the horizontal menu bar.

The Restore wizard starts.

Select Backup Plan to Restore

Select a backup storage account that contains the dataset to restore, then select the computer associated with the backup plan to restore.

Select Type of Data to Restore

Select the Restore Proxmox Virtual Machine option to restore VMs and containers.

Select Backup Plan to Restore

Select a backup plan that contains the dataset to restore. Entries are named after backup plans previously created and executed successfully.

Click Next.

Select Restore Point

Select the required restore point for the plan. You can select the latest available restore point or select the required one manually from the list.

Click Next.

Restore Source

Select the virtual machines to restore from the list.

Restore Type

This step displays all possible restore types that are available for backups currently stored in backup storage. To restore a Proxmox VM as a virtual disk, select Restore as a virtual disk. This functionality is not available for Proxmox containers.

Click Next.

Destination

Specify the destination disk for the restore of the Proxmox backup.

Click Next.

Schedule Your Restore Plan (Optional)

If you chose to save the created restore plan for further use, select schedule options.

Click Next.

Pre-/Post Actions (Optional)

Specify actions to be executed before or after the restore plan completion.

Starting from Management Console version 5.0, pre- or post-actions for Backup Agents can be restricted by provider. To learn more about the pre-/post-action settings, refer to the Global Agent Options and Companies chapters.

Click Next.

Notifications

Specify email notification settings.

Refer to the Notifications and Logging article for details.

Click Next.

Check Network Shares (Optional)

If you specified one or more network locations on the previous wizard pages, you can make the wizard verify access to these locations.

Click Next.

Summary

Check and manage your restore plan.

Click Save to create the restore plan.

Complete Restore Plan Creation

Once you have reviewed your selections on the Summary step, click Next to create the restore plan.

The final step in the wizard will confirm that the Restore Plan has been created successfully. If the plan was scheduled, you can opt to run it immediately by checking the Run restore now checkbox and clicking Finish.Otherwise, the plan will be set to run at the next scheduled time.