Cove Data Protection Recovery Guide & Best Practices
Your decisions when deploying Cove Data Protection should be guided by your recovery requirements. And Cove offers multiple different ways to perform recoveries. This best practices guide is intended to help you choose among the options at both deployment and recovery time.
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What do you want to recover?
Restore files and folders for Windows / MAC / Linux devices
Restore files and folders for Windows / MAC / Linux devices
Backup method needed:
Guest level backup:File/Folder backup
Best recovery method:
Source system: Launch Backup Manager via dash https://backup.management
Documentation link:
Recovering data with Backup Manager
Restore files and folders to a different device
Restore files and folders to a different device
Backup method needed:
Guest level backup:File/Folder backup
Best recovery method:
Source system: Launch Backup Manager via dash https://backup.management
More details
Another option – install the Recovery Console, add device needed for recovery, launch the BM.
Documentation link:
Restore-only mode installation of Backup Manager
Restore MS SQL databases
Restore MS SQL databases
Backup method needed:
MS SQL database backup
Best recovery method:
Source system: Launch Backup Manager via dash https://backup.management
Documentation link:
Recovering data with Backup Manager
Managed Automated Recovery Testing (full device up to 2TB or OS only for larger devices)
Managed Automated Recovery Testing (full device up to 2TB or OS only for larger devices)
Backup method needed:
Guest level backup: File/Folder backup + System State backup
Best recovery method:
Manage within Recovery Dashboard in the https://backup.management console
Documentation link:
Recovery Testing
P2P: Restore a physical Windows device (bare-metal recovery)
P2P: Restore a physical Windows device (bare-metal recovery)
Backup method needed:
Guest level backup: File/Folder backup + System State backup
Best recovery method:
Use BMR.exe and create bootable USB device. It allows to add additional drivers during USB creation for dissimilar support.
Documentation link:
Bare metal recovery guide
P2V: Restore a physical Windows device to Hyper-V / VMware
P2V: Restore a physical Windows device to Hyper-V / VMware
Backup method needed:
Guest level backup: File/Folder backup + System State backup
Best recovery method:
Use Standby Image to restore to Hyper-V / .vhdx
Documentation link:
Standby Image
V2V: On-Demand Restore a Windows VM to Hyper-V / VMware
V2V: On-Demand Restore a Windows VM to Hyper-V / VMware
Backup method needed:
Guest level backup: File/Folder backup + System State backup
Best recovery method:
Use Standby Image to restore to Hyper-V / .vhdx
Documentation link:
Standby Image
V2V: On-Demand Restore Linux VM
V2V: On-Demand Restore Linux VM
Backup method needed:
Host level backup: Hyper-V / VMware snapshot level backup
Best recovery method:
Use Recovery Console to restore back to Hyper-V / VMware
Documentation link:
Recovery Console Guide
P2C / V2C On-Demand Restore to Microsoft Azure
P2C / V2C On-Demand Restore to Microsoft Azure
Backup method needed:
Guest level backup: File/Folder backup + System State backup
Best recovery method:
Use Restore to Azure
Documentation link:
Restore to Azure Overview
Cold standby for Windows devices: Continuous restores to Hyper-V / .vhdx
Cold standby for Windows devices: Continuous restores to Hyper-V / .vhdx
Backup method needed:
Guest level backup: File/Folder backup + System State backup
Best recovery method:
Use Standby Image to restore back to Hyper-V / .vhdx
Documentation link:
Standby Image / Recovery Console Guide
Standby Image for Windows devices: Continuous restore to VMware
Standby Image for Windows devices: Continuous restore to VMware
Backup method needed:
Guest level backup: File/Folder backup + System State backup
Best recovery method:
Use the Standby Image feature
Documentation link:
Standby Image Guide
Restore Microsoft 365 data
Restore Microsoft 365 data
Backup method needed:
Use M365 backup to protect Exchange / OneDrive / SharePoint / Teams
Best recovery method:
Manage within https://backup.management
Documentation link:
Restore Microsoft 365 Data
C2C Restore workloads running on Microsoft Azure to Azure
C2C Restore workloads running on Microsoft Azure to Azure
Backup method needed:
Guest-level backup: File/Folder backup + System State backup
Best recovery method:
Use Restore to Azure
Documentation link:
Restore to Azure Overview