In my previous post, ALTARO VM Backup Review I mentioned about the feature Instant Boot from backup, which allows you to instantly boot any VM from Backup without affecting backup integrity. This feature is one of the best using by many customers for quick recovery of VMware and Hyper-V Infrastructure. Booting VM from backup without full restore helps users to directly access VM without much downtime and VM will booted without losing any changes.
Benefits of Altaro VM Backup’s Boot From Backup feature:
Prerequisites
When you perform a Boot from Backup in a VMware infrastructure make sure below points are validated, these steps need to be carried out only for the first time.
If you haven’t done so already, start by downloading the trial version of Altaro VM Backup where you can evaluate the full features of Altaro including the Boot from Backup Feature. Once you’ve gone through the software a bit and took a few backups, you can go to the Boot from Backup option from the left hand side menu of the main software console.
Note :- If the ports are not open, you may get an error like below .
Follow the steps from KB Article Altaro’s Ports through the VMware Firewall to allow the Boot From Backup feature to work
It is very simple
esxcli software vib install -v /vmfs/volumes/<YOUR_DATASTORE_NAME>/AltaroBootFromBackup.vib –f
Conclusion
Boot from backup is great feature for getting your RTO down by boot up the VM immediately from a backup location and start a restore on the background concurrently. As per my view this feature really help to get the data in case of failure of VM very quickly without restoring full VM and waiting long time.
Most of the backup solution has challenge to restore data quickly and customers has to wait hours to restore the complete data and start the operation. ALTARO VM Backup resolve this issue by using Boot from Backup feature which restore the VM from Backup Location in seconds .
In my environment, I was able to boot the virtual Machine with 30 GB in 10 Seconds using this boot from backup feature and all the data was available on the booted VM. However fast backup location can handle the I/O of a booted VM that is essentially you are going to brows and get the date.
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