Restore Process

A restore operation for a full VM from a Red Hat Virtualization backup job includes the following stages:

1. For an in-place restore, delete the existing source VM.

2. Create one or more disks on the destination storage domain specified by the user, using the same provisioned size as the disks from the source VM.

3. Attach each disk to the VSA proxy that is used to perform the restore.

4. Read data from the MediaAgent and write to the disks.

5. After writes are completed, detach the disks from the proxy.

6. For an in-place restore, use the configuration file for the source VM to create a virtual machine with the same name as the source VM, and then attach the disks to the newly created virtual machine.

7. For an out-of-place restore, use the destination information specified during the restore and the configuration file for the source VM to create a new virtual machine, and then attach the disks to the newly created virtual machine.