Instant Restore to Synology Virtual Machine Manager
The integration of Active Backup for Business with Synology Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) provides users with an alternative solution for disaster recovery, browsing and restoring application data, and upgrading test environments. This section will guide you through how to instantly restore the backed up device on Synology VMM and the prerequisites for executing such a task.
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Before You Start
By leveraging the native export/import tools, the backed up device instantly restored on Synology VMM helps users prepare for disaster recovery, test environment upgrade, and application data restoring.
Limitations:
- Instant restore to Synology VMM is only supported on DSM 6.2 and Synology VMM 2.3.4 or above. For further information about the limitations of Synology VMM, please refer to here.
- When compression or encryption at backup destination is enabled, you cannot perform Instant Restore to Virtual Machine Manager or Backup Verification on models with certain package arches: Avoton, Braswell, Bromolow, Cedarview, and Grantley. To find out which package arch your Synology NAS uses, check this article.
- When compression or encryption at backup destination is enabled, snapshot and replication will not be available if you perform an instant restore in Virtual Machine Manager.
Launch Synology VMM Wizard
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To instantly restore the backed up device on Synology VMM, you can do either of the following:
- Go to Active Backup for Business > Virtual Machine > Microsoft Hyper-V and select the virtual machine you want to restore. Click Restore to launch the restore wizard and select Instant Restore to Synology Virtual Machine Manager (VMM).
- Go to Active Backup for Business > Virtual Machine > Task List and select the backup task you want to restore. Click Restore to launch the restore wizard and select Instant Restore to Synology Virtual Machine Manager (VMM).
Restore Wizard
Follow the restore wizard to do the following:
To select a virtual machine and restore point:
Select the virtual machine you want to instantly restore on Synology VMM and select a restore point.
Note:
- Only one virtual machine in each backup task can be instantly restored on Synology VMM. You cannot select multiple virtual machines and run them at the same time.
To configure virtual machine settings:
After you selected the virtual machine and the restore point, a Synology VMM wizard will be launched for you to configure the settings of the selected virtual machine. Please refer to Synology Virtual Machine Manager for more details.
To apply settings and restore the virtual machine:
After you have configured the settings, click Apply. The virtual machine backup will be imported into Synology VMM and you can choose to power on the virtual machine in Synology VMM console.