Recover Hyper-V VMs & Files

Once you have protected your Hyper-V VMs, you can recover Hyper-V VMs or files, to their original or a new location.

Prerequisite

Before recovering files to a target VM, depending on the guest OS system on the target VM, be sure to Download and Install the Cohesity Agent on Your Standalone Hyper-V Hosts on the target VM.

Recover Hyper-V VMs

To recover Hyper-V VMs from your protected Hyper-V VMs:

  1. In DataProtect as a Service, go to Sources to set up your recovery task.

  2. Click on the Source name.

  3. Above the tree, select Protection Status > Protected.

  4. Use the filters, search box, and views to locate and select the Hyper-V source you want to recover from.

    You can also use Global Search to locate, filter, and select the objects you need. Click the Global Search box at the top or type slash (/) anywhere to start your search.

  5. Locate and select the Hyper-V VMs you need, and then click Recover at the top to open the New Recovery form with the Latest snapshot (protection run).

    If you do not see the option to recover VMs from your Hyper-V backups, please contact Cohesity Support to request it.

  6. If you need to recover from an earlier snapshot, click the Edit icon to select a new recovery point.

    • For each VM under Selected, you can click the Edit icon to open the Recovery Point calendar. Click List to view the available recovery points by timestamp and click one.

    • Click Select Recovery Point.

    • Click Next: Recover Options to return to the form.

  7. Under Recover To, select Original Location or New Location.

    • If you choose New Location, select a Registered Source, Resource Pool, Datastores, and the VM Folder.

  8. Select your Recovery Options (for object recovery).

  9. Click Start Recovery.

Cohesity DataProtect as a Service opens the Activity page, showing your file recovery task as it runs, along with the recovery progress on the right.

The Activity page also shows the entire history of all protection runs and recovery tasks, including any that are in progress.

Recover Hyper-V Files

To recover Hyper-V files from your protected Hyper-V VMs:

  1. In DataProtect as a Service, go to Sources to set up your recovery task.

  2. Click into the Source name.

  3. Above the tree, select Protection Status > Protected.

  4. Use the filters, search box, and views to locate and select the Hyper-V source you want to recover from.

    You can also use Global Search to locate, filter, and select the objects you need. Click the Global Search box at the top or type slash (/) anywhere to start your search.

  5. Locate the source object containing the files you want to recover and click the Recover Files icon on that row.

    By default, the latest snapshot is selected for recovery. To recover from a different snapshot, click the snapshots drop-down in the top-right corner and select the snapshot you need.

    Changing the snapshot after selecting the items (files or folder) removes the selected items from the cart.

  6. Browse to the file or folder that you want to recover by clicking folders and their subfolders.

  7. Select the files to recover and choose one of the following options:

    • Next. If you select this option, then continue to the next step to configure the file recovery options.

    • Download Files. If you are recovering a single file, this option downloads the file to your browser’s download folder. For all other selections, this creates a recovery task. When the task completes, from the Activity page, click the task name and then click Download Files to download the generated zip file.

  8. Under Recover To, select Original Server or New Server. For:

    • Original Server, by default, the files are received to the original path. If you want to recover to an alternate path, then toggle off Recover to Original Path and enter the path. The default alternate path is /tmp/Recover-<date_time>.

    • New Server, select a Registered Source. You also have the option to register a new source. Select the target VM, username, and password. By default, the files are recovered to the /tmp directory, but you can provide a different directory if needed.

  9. Select your file Recovery Options and click Recover.

Cohesity DataProtect as a Service opens the Activity page, showing your file recovery task as it runs, along with the recovery progress on the right.

The Activity page also shows the entire history of all protection runs and recovery tasks, including any that are in progress.