Veaam Restore

[chrisgreenwood]

We do our vm backups that pull the vms from esxi not from vsphere.

 

Whenever do a restore (been testing some over summer break), it restores it fine but if we shutdown the VM the VM name changes to ds:///vmfs/volumes/datastore/vm_name so then we have to remove from inventry then redo it then re-add the vm into the backup.

 

Is this normal?

[Tys]

Never seen that and I've restored plenty over the years. Am I understanding you correctly that you have Veeam backing up from the esxi host directly rather than via vcenter? Is there a reason behind that? Are you then restoring into the host directly too (I suspect this may be the issue)?

[chrisgreenwood]

Never seen that and I've restored plenty over the years. Am I understanding you correctly that you have Veeam backing up from the esxi host directly rather than via vcenter? Is there a reason behind that? Are you then restoring into the host directly too (I suspect this may be the issue)?

 

We had a little issue (i messed up with the restores) got adviced to backup from the hosts instead of vcenter as vsphere was messing around (but i think it may of been related to my mess up).

 

But yes we restore them directly to the host.

 

Obviously i know how what i did wrong and i won't use that part of veaam again (was my first time and you live and learn), do you think it would be better if i did it from vsphere directly?

[Tys]

Ideally you'd want to avoid doing it via the hosts directly. I imagine the backup will be fine either way, but I would try and do the restore from veeam into vcenter rather than into the host directly. I suspect, and I can't test this at the moment, that the issue is that when you are restoring the VM Veeam isn't then updating the inventory that vcenter keeps (as you're restoring directly to the host "bypassing" it). So then when you turn the VM off, it doesn't remember what the VM is anymore and just shows you the file path.

 

That's just a theory though - but should be quite straightforward to test

[chrisgreenwood]

Thanks,

 

I'll do a backup one of our servers from vsphere (one that isn't so critical) and just see if it behaves more better/

 

Like overall it doesn't bother me as its easily fixable but its a pain when you forget how to fix it