Restore Disks

To restore disks, complete the steps in the below procedure.

1. Go to the Restore page, and click the Virtual Machine tile.
2. In theRestore wizard, a calendar displays all the data recovery points. Click Azure virtual machines.
3. You can choose whether to display the finished with the exception jobs in the calendar by selecting the Include jobs with only partial backup data option.
4. Hover over the data recovery point to view the job details, including the job status, job finished time, scope name, scope ID, job ID, backup size, and the number of objects in a backup.
5. Click the data recovery point in the calendar. The VMs backed up in the selected backup job are displayed in the table.
6. You can use the Tenant filter, Subscription filter, and Resource group filter to find the VMs of specific properties or use the Search box to search for VMs via keywords in the name. You can also manage the columns to adjust the view of VMs.
7. Click the VM where the disks that you want to restore reside in. All the disks in this VM are displayed. You can search for disks by name or manage the columns to adjust the view of the disks.
8. Select the disks that you want to restore and click Restore.
9. In the Restore options step, select where you would like to restore the disk data and provide an optional description for further reference.
   • Restore the data to the original location – To restore the data to its original location, the disks in the original location will be overwritten, and the VM will be stopped (deallocated) if it is running.
   • Restore the data to a new location or with different settings – Follow the steps below to choose the subscription for the disk being restored and configure the properties of the destination disk.
     • Subscription – In the Subscription step, select a destination subscription for the disk being restored. You can choose to restore this disk to the same subscription when it is being backed up or select a new subscription, and then select a region as well.
       Note: If the subscription is added to your tenant after the initialization of IBM® Storage Protect for Cloud Azure VMs, Storage, and Entra ID, you must follow the steps in Add to the Subscription and Grant Contributor Role to add the consent user of the IBM Storage Protect for Cloud– Delegated App to your subscription and grant this user the Contributor role at the same time.
     • Disk – Configure the properties for the destination disk, including the resource group, the VM to attach the restored disk (optional), the disk type, the availability zone (for Managed disk), and the storage account (for Unmanaged disk).
       Note: You can restore the unmanaged disks (data disks) to managed types (OS disks), but the managed disks cannot be converted to unmanaged types.
10. Click Next to continue.
11. Review the restore settings in the Overview step.
12. Click Restore to perform the restore job.