Restores

You can restore full virtual machines in place or to a new destination. Restores are supported for both Windows and Linux clients.

Considerations

• Backup and restore of encrypted blobs is not supported.

• You can backup virtual machines configured with Azure Stack Hub unmanaged and managed disks. From these backups, you can restore full virtual machines and restore guest files and folders.

  For restoring VMs from IntelliSnap backups: When executing a restore of a full VM configured with Azure Stack Hub managed disks, because of an Azure limitation, you can only restore the VM to the same Azure Region where the snapshot was created (the source of the snap copy used to restore the VM).

Restore Process

A full VM restore operation includes the following stages:

1. Engage the Virtual Server file system driver.

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

3. Mount VM disks.

4. Read data.

5. For an in-place restore, recreate the VM using VM disk data and the JSON configuration file for the VM.

6. For an out-of-place restore, create a new VM using the destination information specified for the restore (such as the ARM model name, resource group, subscription, VM size, and storage account).

7. If a network security group was specified for the source VM, configure the same security group for the restored VM.

   If no security group was specified for the source VM, you can add a security group to the destination VM after the restore operation completes.