Recover Physical Servers

After you protect your physical servers, you can recover them from Cohesity DataProtect as a Service to their original or a new location.

To recover a protected physical server:

  1. In DataProtect as a Service, navigate to Sources, find the Physical source name and click into it.

  2. Use the filters and search box at the top to narrow your search.

  3. Click the Recover icon.

  4. Select the snapshot to recover and click Apply.

  5. Browse the content of the backup and select files, folders, or volumes to be recovered, then click Next.

  6. Optionally, click Download Files to download the contents of the recovery task after the task is completed.

  7. Under Recover to, select Original Server or New Server. With:

    • Original Server, Cohesity will overwrite the original physical server instance. You can restore the data in the original path or provide an alternate path for the restore.

      To recover to a different location in the original server, disable the Recover to Original Path option, and then provide the location to which the files or folders are to be recovered in the Recover To field. By default, the files and folders will be recovered to the original location.

      This is a destructive action that cannot be undone.

    • New Server, select a registered Source, the Target instance, and provide the recovery Path.

  8. Under Recovery Options, you can set:

    • Overwrite Existing File/Folder. By default, this option is enabled to overwrite the existing files and folders. Disable this option to create the files and folders in the specified location. Any duplicate files are skipped.

    • Preserve File/Folder Attributes. By default, this option is enabled and the ACLs, permissions, and timestamps are preserved for all files and folders. If you disable this option, then ACLs and permissions are not preserved. If you recover both folders and files, the folders will receive the new timestamps, but the files retain their original timestamps. If you recover only files, then the files will receive the new timestamps.

    • Continue on Error. Enable this option if you want to continue the recovery even if one of the objects encounters an error. By default, this option is disabled and the recovery operation will fail if one of the objects encounters an error.

    • Task Name. Change the default name of the recovery task.

  9. Click Recover.