Restoring a VM or Yandex BareMetal server from a backup

If you do not have the Yandex Cloud CLI installed yet, install and initialize it.

By default, the CLI uses the folder specified when creating the profile. To change the default folder, use the yc config set folder-id <folder_ID> command. You can also set a different folder for any specific command using the --folder-name or --folder-id parameter.

1. View the description of the CLI command to restore a VM or BareMetal server from a backup:

   yc backup backups recover --help
   

2. Get the ID of the backup:

   yc backup backups list
   

   Result:

   +--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+----------------------+--------------------------------------+----------------------+------+------------------+--------+---------------------+
   |                  ID                  |              ARCHIVE ID              | COMPUTE INSTANCE ID  |             RESOURCE ID              |      POLICY ID       | TYPE |      DISKS       |  SIZE  |     CREATED AT      |
   +--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+----------------------+--------------------------------------+----------------------+------+------------------+--------+---------------------+
   | ab55286e-795f-44dc-90af-b718******** | ef3e8144-fb65-6a59-5ec1-3162******** | jklp0o9i8012******** | 2465BE59-5687-4539-9589-DF7E******** | abc7n3wln123******** | FULL | Disk 1 (15.0 GB) | 1.5 GB | 2023-07-07 16:00:15 |
   | cd50e147-7dfa-449f-816b-67f8******** | gh06b195-c095-1234-7809-0700******** | mnoa5s6d8345******** | 135C519D-B5A3-4781-8DFA-40B3******** | deflqbiwc456******** | FULL | Disk 1 (15.0 GB) | 1.6 GB | 2023-07-03 10:00:10 |
   +--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+----------------------+--------------------------------------+----------------------+------+------------------+--------+---------------------+
   

3. Get the ID of the VM to restore:

   yc compute instance list
   

   Result:

   +----------------------+---------+---------------+---------+--------------+-------------+
   |          ID          |  NAME   |    ZONE ID    | STATUS  | EXTERNAL IP  | INTERNAL IP |
   +----------------------+---------+---------------+---------+--------------+-------------+
   | jklp0o9i8012******** | my-vm-1 | ru-central1-b | RUNNING | 51.250.**.** | 192.168.*.* |
   | mnoa5s6d8345******** | my-vm-2 | ru-central1-b | RUNNING | 84.201.**.** | 192.168.*.* |
   +----------------------+---------+---------------+---------+--------------+-------------+
   

   To get the BareMetal server IDs, select BareMetal from the list of services of the relevant folder in the management console. The IDs are specified in the server list in the ID field.

4. Restore your VM or BareMetal server from the backup:

   yc backup backups recover \
     --source-backup-id <backup_ID> \
     --destination-instance-id <VM_or_BareMetal_server_ID>
   

   Where:

   • --source-backup-id: ID of the backup to restore the VM or BareMetal server from.
   • --destination-instance-id: ID of the VM or BareMetal server to restore the backup to.

   Result:

   ...1s...6s...11s ... 9m4s...9m9s...done (9m9s)
   

   For more information about the command, see the CLI reference.

Use the startRecovery REST API method for the Backup resource or the BackupService/StartRecovery gRPC API call.