Cove Data Protection (Cove)'s One-Time Restore feature allows you to restore data to VMWare ESXi or to a Local VMDK file as configured in ESXi Recovery Locations on an on-demand basis.
It is possible to run one-time restores on devices assigned to either the Recovery Testing or Standby Image plans.
Requirements:
- Backup Manager version 17.4 and newer
- Devices and Recovery Locations must belong to the same Customer
- A Cove Data Protection (Cove) SuperUser or Manager account
- Recovery Locations must be added to the Management Console and the Recovery service must be installed on the recovery location before one-time restore can occur
- Recovery Location is an environment where restores will be performed
- Recovery service is a service which perform restores on that Recovery location
Limitations
- One Time Restore cannot be used on the RMM integrated version of Backup (Managed Online Backup) or on the N-central integrated version of Backup (Backup and Recovery)
- One Time Restore is not available for devices with disabled ‘Virtual disaster recovery’ feature in an assigned Product
- 32-bit architecture is not supported
- For a Virtual Machine restored to ESXi host, there is an option to automatically boot it and create a screenshot to check that the Virtual Machine is bootable, then send this screenshot to the Management Console so that users can check it
- Maximum supported capacity for virtual hard disks is 64 TB per disk
- Devices can only be assigned to one Recovery Location
What is restored?
The following data sources are supported and restored to the Hyper-V recovery location given that they are selected for backup in the Product, or data source selection:
- System State
- Files and Folders
- Exchange
- SharePoint
- MS SQL
What's inside: