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Restore volume from backup

When restoring from backup, you would restore an entire volume. Restoring single files is not possible but would require an instance </compute/index> be setup, launched and then the files could be collected from the instance.

To restore, you would first create a volume, restore to it and then create and instance from the volume </storage/persistent-block-storage/creating-an-instance-from-a-volume>. Below follows instructions on how to do restores from various platforms:

Cloud management portal

To restore a backup to a volume using the /getting-started/managing-your-cloud/cloud-management-portal, follow these steps:

  • Press "Storage" and then "Backups" in the sidebar menu.
  • Note the size of the backup you would like to restore.
  • Follow the steps in our /storage/persistent-block-storage/create-volume guide to create an empty volume of the same size as the backup. Note the name.
  • Press "Storage" and then "Backups" in the sidebar menu.
  • Press the small rounded arrow "Restore backup" on the backup that you want to restore.
  • Select the volume you just created in the dropdown "Volume".
  • Press "restore backup".

Note

While there is an option to create a new volume when restoring a backup, this does not work due to not taking availability zones into consideration. Therefore you need to first create a volume.

OpenStack Horizon

To restore a backup of a volume using /getting-started/managing-your-cloud/openstack-horizon, follow these steps:

  • Under "project", click "Volumes" and then "Backups" in the sidebar menu.
  • Note the size of the backup you would like to restore.
  • Follow the steps in our /storage/persistent-block-storage/create-volume guide to create an empty volume of the same size as the backup. Note the name.
  • Under "project", click "Volumes" and then "Backups" in the sidebar menu.
  • Press "Restore backup" to the far right on the line of the backup that you want to restore.
  • Select the volume you just created in the dropdown "Select Volume".
  • Press "Restore backup to volume".

OpenStack Terminal Client

To restore a volume using the /getting-started/managing-your-cloud/openstack-terminal-client, follow these steps:

  • Run this command: openstack volume backup list, note the size of the backup that you want to restore as well as the ID.
  • Follow the steps in our /storage/persistent-block-storage/create-volume guide to create an empty volume of the same size as the backup. Note the ID it gets. Can also be gotten by running openstack volume list.
  • Run this command: openstack volume backup restore --force [BACKUP_ID] [VOLUME_ID]

Note

As of writing this, the restore via CLI is not working as intended on all versions of the client. If you get issues from above command, please try a restore via one of the other options.

- index - manual-backup - automatic-backup