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  2. NetBackup™ for OpenStack Administrator's Guide
  3. Performing backups and restores of OpenStack
  4. Selective Restore
NetBackup™ for OpenStack Administrator's Guide

Selective Restore

The Selective Restore is the most complex restore NetBackup for OpenStack has to offer. It allows to adapt the restored VMs to the exact needs of the User.

With the selective restore the following things can be changed:

  • Which VMs are getting restored

  • Name of the restored VMs

  • Which networks to connect with

  • Which Storage domain to use

  • Which data center or cluster to restore into

  • Which flavor the restored VMs will use

The Selective Restore is always available and doesn't have any prerequirements.

Using Horizon

There are two possibilities to start a Selective Restore.

Possibility 1: From the snapshot list

  1. On the Horizon console, navigate to NBOS Backups > Policies.

  2. Identify the policy that contains the snapshot to be restored.

  3. Click the policy name to enter the policy overview.

  4. Navigate to the Snapshots tab.

  5. Identify the snapshot to be restored.

  6. From the drop-down menu under Actions column, select Selective Restore.

  7. Configure the Selective Restore as desired.

  8. Click Restore.

Possibility 2: From the snapshot overview

  1. On the Horizon console, navigate to NBOS Backups > Policies.

  2. Identify the policy that contains the snapshot to be restored.

  3. Click the policy name to enter the policy overview.

  4. Navigate to the Snapshots tab.

  5. Identify the snapshot to be restored.

  6. Click the snapshot name.

  7. Navigate to the Restores tab.

  8. Click Selective Restore.

  9. Configure the selective Restore as desired.

  10. Click Restore.

Using CLI
nbosjm snapshot-selective-restore [--display-name <display-name>]
                         [--display-description <display-description>]
                         [--filename <filename>]
                         <snapshot_id>
  • <snapshot_id> ID of the snapshot to restore.

  • --display-name <display-name> Optional name for the restore.

  • --display-description <display-description> Optional description for restore.

  • --filename <filename> Provide file path(relative or absolute) including file name , by default it will read file: /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nbosjmclient/input-files/restore.json . You can use this for reference or replace values into this file.

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