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Restoring Full Amazon EC2 Instances In Place

You can restore full Amazon EC2 instances to the original location (in place).

Prerequisites

If a passkey is configured for restores, you must have the passkey.

Start the Restore Wizard

  1. From the Command Center navigation pane, go to Protect > Virtualization.

    The Overview page appears.

  2. On the VM groups tab, in the row for the VM group that contains the EC2 instances that you want to restore, click the action button action_button, and then select Restore.

    The Select restore type page appears.

  3. Click Full instance.

    The Full instance page appears.

  4. Select the EC2 instances to restore.

  5. To select a specific MediaAgent and/or source copy for the restore, in the upper-right area of the page, click Change source.

    By default, the Commvault Cloud software automatically selects the MediaAgent and source copy as follows:

    • MediaAgent: The software uses the MediaAgent that performed the backup.

    • Source copy: The software searches for the requested data in the primary copy. If the data is not found in the primary copy, the software selects a secondary or auxiliary copy.

    Potential for egress charges

    Restoring from a copy that is outside the destination Region incurs egress charges. For more information, see Data Transfer on the Amazon EC2 On-Demand Pricing page in the AWS documentation.

  6. Click Restore.

    The restore wizard appears.

Specify the Restore Destination

  1. For Type, select In place.

  2. For Access node, leave Automatic (the default value) selected, or select an access node or an access node group.

    • For the best results, use the Automatic option because it does the following:

      • Selects the most appropriate access nodes.

        Potential for egress charges

        the software assigns the EC2 instances to access nodes as follows:

        1. To access nodes in the same AZ.

        2. If no access nodes in the same AZ are available, to access nodes in the same Region.

        3. If no access nodes in the same Region are available, to any available access node (which incurs egress charges).

      • Provides resiliency against access node failure (that is, if an access node fails during a restore, the software restarts the restore on other, available access nodes).

      • Distributes the EC2 instances across the access nodes that are assigned for the destination AWS account.

    • If you select a specific access node or access node group, consider the following:

      • If you select an access node that is outside of AWS, the software uploads volume information to Amazon S3 and uses the volumes to create the EC2 instance.

      • If you select an access node group, the software distributes the workload across the access nodes that are available in the access node group.

    Potential for egress charges

    When you restore EC2 instances from an Amazon S3 library in one AWS Region to another Region, consider Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) egress costs. For more information, see Data Transfer on the Amazon EC2 On-Demand Pricing page in the AWS documentation.

  3. Click Next.

    The Virtual Machines page appears.

  4. Click Next.

Specify Settings for the Restore Operation

  1. Specify the following settings:

    • Power on VMs after restore: Select this setting to have the software start the EC2 instances after they are restored.

      The power state of the EC2 instances does not affect subsequent backups. If the EC2 instances are powered on during backups, by default, the EC2 instances are powered on again after the restore completes (unless you clear this check box).

    • Unconditionally overwrite if it already exists: If an EC2 instance that you are restoring and an EC2 instance in the destination AWS account have the same instance ID, select this setting have the software delete the instance in the destination AWS account and replace it with the EC2 instance that you are restoring.

      Note

      If an EC2 instance that you are restoring and an EC2 instance in the destination AWS account have the same instance ID, and you do not select Unconditionally overwrite if it already exists, the restore fails.

    • Notify user on job completion: Select this setting have the software send an email notification that the restore is complete.

    • Under Additional options, for Transport mode, you can specify the transport mode to use for the restore.

      The default value of Automatic uses the best transport mode for your environment.

      If you select the AWS VM Import/Export transport mode option, the Commvault Cloud software automatically creates an Amazon S3 bucket for the destination. The bucket is named gx-restore-region_name-account_id, where region_name is the name of the AWS region and account_id is the AWS account for the hypervisor.

  2. Click Next.

    The Summary page appears.

Review the Summary and Start the Restore

  1. Review the summary to verify the settings.

  2. Click Submit to start the restore.

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