How to Use Veeam Instant Recovery for Nas

Veeam Instant Recovery for NAS

Veeam Instant Recovery for NAS feature is implemented by mounting a NAS or file server restore point to the target server. Similar to other instant recovery features such as Instant VM Recovery, instead of migrating all the data, Veeam runs the data directly from the backup repository, which greatly reduces the recovery time.

The scenarios for NAS Instant Recovery include the following

• In case of natural disasters, hardware failures or other catastrophes resulting in NAS data loss or corruption
• When users accidentally delete important files or folders, or data corruption due to virus infection, software errors and other reasons
• Instant file sharing recovery can be utilized to quickly set up test and development environments, and use the backup data for testing, data mining and DevOps.

How to Perform Instant File Share Recovery

Veeam for NAS backup feature is available since Veeam v10, which uses File level technology to backup NAS file data.

Next, we will perform Veeam instant recovery for NAS, which can publish point-in-time file share backup data to a read-only file share so that users can have instant access to all protected files.

1. In the Veeam Backup & Replication console, first open the console and go to the main view, click “Backups”, expand the necessary backups in the workspace, right-click on the file share you want to recover and select “Instant File Share Recovery”.

2. At the “File Shares” step, select the file share from which you want to perform an instant recovery, select a different restore point by clicking on “Point” if necessary and then click “Next”.

3. At the “Mount Servers” step, specify the mount server settings for publishing the file share. By default, Veeam automatically selects the mount servers, or you can specify them manually.

4. If Veeam detects that a security descriptor is missing on the file share, you can specify the owner account and permissions for the file share at the “Access Permissions” step of the wizard.

5. In the “Reason” step, specify the reason for performing an instant file share recovery.

6. Finally, at the “Summary” step, review the Instant File Share Recovery settings and click “Finish” and Veeam will publish the file share to the specified mount server.

You can update the contents of the mounted file share after recovering an SMB file share as explained in the section Performing Instant File Share Recovery. After that, you may migrate the mounted file share to production.

Powerful Instant Recovery for Data Security and Business Continuity

AOMEI Cyber Backup is a powerful backup and recovery software for enterprise-class data protection, supporting Windows and Linux systems, backing up VMware, Hyper-V virtual machines and physical servers, as well as MSSQL servers and more.

The instant recovery feature of AOMEI Cyber Backup software offers the following advantages:

✔ Instant VM Recovery: In the event of an unforeseen situation, backup data can be quickly restored to a usable state, greatly reducing business downtime and ensuring normal business operations.

✔ Fine-grained recovery: Supporting the recovery of individual files, folders, and entire virtual machines or physical machines, users can precisely recover the required data according to actual needs.

✔ Easy to use: Intuitive user interface simplifies the backup and recovery process. Instant recovery can be accomplished in a few simple steps, reducing the threshold of operation and the risk of human error.

✔ Data Consistency: Ensure the consistency and integrity of the recovered data at the point of time, avoiding business logic errors or data loss due to data inconsistency.

✔ Cost-effective: For users with limited budgets, this software provides a cost-effective solution that meets the enterprise's needs for data backup and instantaneous recovery without the need to invest a large amount of money.

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Prerequisites for instant restore:
• Computer with AOMEI Cyber Backup installed
• VMware ESXi backups created by AOMEI Cyber Backup

1. Create a scheduled VMware backup to ensure consistent protection without impacting system performance. After backup is complete, you can perform instant VM recovery as the following.

2. Click "Task" on the left menu bar, choose "Instant Recovery" and click "Create New Instant Restore". Here we take "Restore from task" for an example.

3. Click Source and select the virtual machine and backup version.

4. Click Restore to and select the target device to be restored to.

5. Configure the hardware settings for the new virtual machine, such as CPU quantity, CPU Cores and memory size.

6. Name the new VM and click Start Restore to perform instant recovery.

✍After creating vm instant recovery, click Start Migration on details page to return backup to production environment.

AOMEI Cyber Backup is suitable for a variety of recovery scenarios, such as disaster recovery, test and development environment setup, and data mining.

Conclusion

Veeam instant NAS recovery function and AOMEI Cyber Backup's Instant Recovery function provide strong support for enterprise data protection, greatly reducing the recovery time of enterprise data, and are suitable for disaster recovery.