How to perform a Staged Restore using Veeam Backup & Replication

Veeam DataLabs Staged Restore is a powerful feature designed to help manage compliance and ensure that sensitive data is removed from backups before the data has a chance to make it back to a live environment. Veeam DataLabs Staged Restore can also be used for other helpful use cases outside of compliance. For staged restore, Veeam Backup & Replication uses a preconfigured virtual lab, an executable script located on the backup server, and credentials to connect to VMs and run the script. Veeam Backup & Replication performs staged restore in the following way:
In the virtual lab, Veeam Backup & Replication starts VMs directly from compressed and deduplicated backup files that reside in the backup repository. To achieve this, Veeam Backup & Replication uses the Veeam vPower NFS Service.
If you selected to use an application group to run a script, Veeam Backup & Replication first starts VMs from the application group in the required order.
Veeam Backup & Replication copies the script from the backup server to VMs that you plan to restore.
To connect to VMs, Veeam Backup & Replication uses credentials specified in staged restore settings.
Veeam Backup & Replication runs the copied script on every VM.
To run the script, Veeam Backup & Replication uses the same technology as for pre-freeze and post-thaw scripts. For more information, see Pre-Freeze and Post-Thaw Scripts.
All VM changes that take place during script execution are written to VM delta files.
By default, Veeam Backup & Replication stores delta files on the vPower NFS server. You can change the destination for VM delta files in virtual lab settings.
After the script execution is complete, Veeam Backup & Replication makes a safe shutdown of VMs in the virtual lab.
Veeam Backup & Replication restores VMs in a changed state to the production environment.
To achieve that, Veeam Backup & Replication copies VM data from the backup repository and delta files to the target host using Veeam Quick Migration. Watch this demo video to learn more about what use cases Veeam Staged Restore solves.
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