How to Stop Publishing in Veeam Instant Recovery

Veeam Instant Recovery Stop Publishing

In Veeam, when you recover a VM using Instant Recovery, the process is "published" to make the VM accessible to users or applications. This means the VM or file is available for use even though it is still being restored in the background. Publishing is key to allowing this near-instant access during a recovery operation.

How to Stop Publishing in Veeam Instant Recovery

If you have disabled the "Delete source VM files after successful migration" option in the Quick Migration settings, you must manually cancel publishing the VM. The following is a step-by-step guide on how to safely stop publish in a Veeam instant recovery instance.

1. Open the Veeam Backup & Replication console, in the Home page, select Instant Recovery node.

2. Right-click a VM and select Stop publishing.

Issues When Stopping Publishing in Veeam

Occasionally, you may encounter errors when trying to stop publishing. Common issues include:

• "Cannot stop publishing" error due to active connections or dependencies.
• File locking or VM dependency conflicts, where the recovered VM is still being accessed by another service or user.

To resolve these, ensure no external services are using the recovered VM, and check for any locked files or active sessions that might need to be terminated.

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After downloading AOMEI Cyber Backup, you can configure instant recovery with simple steps:

Step 1. Create VMware ESXi VMs Backup and then start VM instant recovery.

Step 2. Create New Instant Restore as following:

✐ Click "Task" > "Instant Recovery" > "New Instant Recovery". Here we take "Restore from task" for an example.

✐ Select Source and choose the virtual machine and backup version.

✐ Select the device to be restored to in "Restore to". Choose the target device.

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

✐ Enter a name for the new virtual machine.

✐ Click "Start Restore" to start the instant restore.

✐ Then click Start Migration to restore the virtual machine to the production environment after the production environment resumes normal.

Conclusion

Stopping publishing in Veeam Instant Recovery is a critical part of the recovery lifecycle. It ensures that you can regain control of your resources once the immediate need for recovery has passed. By following the steps in this article, you can stop publishing safely while preserving data integrity.