NetVault Plug-in for Hyper-V 12.0

NetVault Plug-in for Hyper-V 12.0 - User Guide

Finalizing and submitting a file-level restore job

The final steps include setting additional options on the Schedule, Source Options, and Advanced Options pages, submitting the job, and monitoring the progress through the Job Status and View Logs pages. These pages and options are common to all NetVault Backup Plug-ins. For more information, see the Quest NetVault Backup Administrator’s Guide.

To save the settings, click Ok, and then click Next.

In Job Name, specify a name for the job if you do not want to use the default setting.

Specify a detailed title that lets you easily identify the job when monitoring its progress. The job name can contain alphanumeric and nonalphanumeric characters, but it cannot contain non-Latin characters. There is no length restriction. However, a maximum of 40 characters is recommended on all platforms.

Use the Schedule, Source Options, and Advanced Options lists to configure any additional required options.

Click Save or Save & Submit, whichever is applicable.

You can monitor progress on the Job Status page and view the logs on the View Logs page. For more information, see the Quest NetVault Backup Administrator’s Guide.

Using other restore procedures

This topic describes other restore operations that you can perform with the plug-in:

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Searching for files in savesets

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Renaming and relocating a VM during image-level restore

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Restoring data to an alternate Hyper-V Server

Searching for files in savesets

The Search option on the Create Restore Job — Choose Saveset page allows you to find specific files or data items without opening any savesets or browsing through their contents. You can use filenames or regular expressions to find the data items that you want to restore.

To configure or enable the catalog search, click the bulb icon shown near the Search button on the Create Restore Job — Choose Saveset page. The catalog search supports the regular expression syntax used by Elasticsearch. For more information on Elasticsearch, see https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-regexp-query.html. For more information on catalog search, see the Quest NetVault Backup Administrator’s Guide.

To search for data items in savesets:

On the Create Restore Job — Choose Saveset page, click Search.

In the Search for files in savesets dialog box, configure the following options:

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Search String: Type the search string.

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Regular expression search: To use POSIX regular expressions instead of Elasticsearch in the Search String box, select this check box.

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Use legacy search method: If both cataloged and non-cataloged savesets are included in the search, the plug-in displays this check box.

If only non-cataloged savesets are included in the search or if Use legacy search method is selected, the legacy search is used.

If only cataloged savesets are included in the search or if Use legacy search method is cleared, the catalog search is used.

To search in one or more specific savesets, select the applicable savesets, and click Search.

If you do not select a saveset, all savesets are included in the search. On the Search Results page, you can view and filter the savesets that contain the specified files or data items.

Select the items you want to restore.

You can only restore items from one saveset.

Click Restore selected items.

Complete the additional steps outlined in Restoring image-level backups or Performing file-level recovery, whichever is applicable.

Renaming and relocating a VM during image-level restore

The plug-in lets you restore a VM to a different name and location. The renaming of a VM can be useful if you do not want to overwrite the existing version.


	IMPORTANT: If your environment uses Windows Server 2008 R2 and you use the Rename feature, the recovery does not include network adapters that the VM backup included.

In the Navigation pane, click Create Restore Job, select Plug‑in for Hyper‑V from the Plugin Type list, select the applicable saveset, and click Next.

On the Create Selection Set page, select the localhost or <clusterName> node to display the VMs, and then select the VM to restore.

With the VM selected on the Create Selection Set page, select Rename from the context menu.

In the Rename/Relocate dialog box, complete both fields (required):

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Rename: Enter the new name.

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Relocate: Enter the new full path. If you are recovering clustered VMs, verify that the path is part of the cluster.

To apply your changes, click Ok.

The VM name is accompanied by the rename and relocate information in parentheses.

Continue with the restore procedure as explained in Restoring image-level backups.

If your environment uses Windows Server 2008 R2 and the original VM included network adapters, use Hyper-V Manager to add the network adapters.