Veritas CloudPoint Administrator's Guide

To restore a snapshot

1. Navigate to your list of assets.

   On the CloudPoint dashboard, in the Environment card, select the asset type you want to work with, and click Manage. This example restores an application snapshot.

2. On the Asset Management page, select the application whose snapshot you want to restore.
3. On the Details page click View Snapshots.
   
4. On the Snapshot Management page, select the snapshot you want to restore and then click Restore.
   
5. On the Restore page, complete the following.

   • Specify a Restore Job Name and Description.

   • Select one of the following restore options, depending on the snapshot type:

     Snapshot type	Restore option	Description
     Cloud snapshot Host / instance Disk Application (host, disk)	Overwrite existing	Replaces the current asset with the snapshot. Following is the behavior for this option: CloudPoint creates new EBS volumes from the VM (disk) snapshots and stops the original instance. It detaches the existing volumes and attaches them to the stopped instance to start the instance. VM or instance ID remain the same, but as new disks are created from the snapshots, the disk IDs are different. Instance and volume tags are copied properly. Policies assigned to hosts are preserved. Notes: This restore option is supported only in AWS and Azure cloud environment. CloudPoint does not remove or delete the older volumes in any restore scenario. If an instance is corrupted, Veritas recommends that you revert that instance to a previous working state instead of spinning up a new instance by restoring an existing snapshot. This helps in avoiding any orchestration tasks that may be needed to integrate the instance into other workflows.
     	Original Location	Restores the snapshot to the same location as the asset, without overwriting the existing asset.
     	New location	Restores the snapshot to a completely different location in the cloud. You can select a target destination from the list of available options displayed in the drop-down list. For example, in case of AWS cloud, the list displays all the subnets in the AWS region where the asset resides.
     Array snapshot Disk	Overwrite existing	Replaces the current asset with the snapshot. CloudPoint sends a snapshot restore request to the underlying storage array and presents it with the selected snapshot. The storage array then performs the actual snapshot restore operation.

6. Click Restore.

   (Applicable for AWS only) If you are performing a disk-level snapshot restore, then the new disk that is created after the restore does not bear a name. The disk name appears blank. In such a case, you have to manually assign a name to the disk to be able to identify and use the disk after the restore is complete.