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7 Restoring a Backup of Virtual Machines
Click on the Restore button in the Actions tab of the main menu to restore one or several backed up
virtual machines. The Restore Backup wizard opens in the main workspace area and asks you to
provide the required information and configure the necessary settings for the new restore task. The
wizard consists of the three consecutive steps which appear in the same area:
What to restore.
Where to restore.
How to restore.
These three steps of the restore wizard and their possible options are described below.
7.1 What to restore
In the first step of the restore backup task wizard, you should define the backup location and select
the virtual machines to be recovered. The chosen locations are scanned for the archives presence
and contents, which is necessary to define the recovery point(s) for backup restore.
Click Browse to select the location and/or archive. In the pop-up window with the browsing options
you can define the path and/or the archive name. Here, you can also see the locations which were
used before.
There are two ways of selecting locations in the browsing window. First, you can select just a
location. In this case you will see the whole tree-list (under the selected locations) of all the virtual
machines and all their restore points in the selected location. Second, you can select both a location
and an archive, in which case you will see just the contents of this archive.
Note that if you select an archive which contains an image of a physical machine (when you need to
because such archives have a single recovery point inside.
If the selected location contains any password-protected archives or archives of physical machines,
then the VMs included in these archives cannot be shown, and you will be warned about it. In this
case, in order to restore your data from these archives, you have to specify its name directly in the
Browse pop-up.
You can select any of the virtual machines from the left side list and move them to the Selected
Virtual Machines section on the right. The selection of the virtual machines is done by moving the
machines from the left side of the butterfly control to the right one, via the “>” and “<” buttons. The
list on the right shows all the virtual machines selected for recovery. The “>” button is used to add
the VM to the recovery list, and the “<” button is used to remove the VM from this list. This list
contains the selected virtual machines and their latest available recovery point(s), i.e. point(s) in time
you can go back to.
For each virtual machine the latest recovery point is selected by default. This recovery point could be
changed by clicking on it. The pop-up window will appear where you can select a different recovery
point.
