Recovering RHEV machines

You can recover RHEV machines using one of the following methods:

• Recovering to a machine running the operating system

  Use this method if the Acronis agent is running on the machine and you need to recover the lost data (a data disk, a data volume, or an individual file) or add the backed-up data from another machine.

  To recover the operating system itself, the Acronis agent will need to boot the machine into the bootable environment. If the machine is running Linux, make sure that, in addition to Agent for Linux, you have installed Acronis Backup Bootable Components & Media Builder for Linux.

• Recovering to a machine booted with bootable media

  Use this method when you need to recover the operating system that has crashed or is infected with malware. Installation of the bootable components is not required in this case because the components will be loaded from the media to the machine's RAM.

To recover to a machine running the operating system

1. Start the management console.
2. Connect the console to the management server or directly to the target machine.
3. Click Recover.
4. Under What to recover, click Select data. In the opened window:
   1. Select Data path box.
   2. Click Browse.
   3. In the opened window, expand the Centralized node, select the vault where your backup is stored and press Enter. If prompted, specify the user name and password to access the vault location.
   4. On the Data view tab, in the Show box, select Machines/disks/volumes to browse and search for entire disks and volumes in disk-level backups.

      Details. You should select Folders/files in the Show box when you want to recover individual files or folders.

   5. Select the check boxes for the data disks you want to recover.
   6. Select the date of the backup version you want to recover. By default, the latest version is selected.
   7. Click OK.
5. Make sure that under Where to recover, in Recover to, the Physical machine option is selected. As a result:
   • If the console is connected to the management server, the data will be recovered to the original machine by default. To select a different target machine, click Browse. Make sure that the target machine has enough disks with sizes at least as big as the original disks.
   • If the console is connected directly to the target machine, the data will be recovered to that machine.
6. [Optional] Acronis Backup maps the selected disks to the target disks automatically. If you are not satisfied with the mapping result, you can re-map the disks manually:
   1. Unmap the disks in the reverse order; that is, the last mapped disk should be unmapped first.
   2. Select the destination disk for each of the source disks.
7. Under When to recover, specify Now to perform the recovery immediately.
8. Click OK to start the recovery.

   Details. You will see the operation progress.

To recover to a machine booted with bootable media

For the detailed description of the procedure, see "Recovery to an existing virtual machine booted with bootable media".