Restore volume from backup¶

When restoring from backup, you would restore an entire volume.

Restoring single files is not possible and requires creating a new instance created you can then collect the files from the instance.

To restore, you would first create a volume, restore to it and then create and instance from the volume.

Cloud management portal¶

To restore a backup to a volume by using the Cloud management portal

• Press Storage and then Backups in the sidebar menu.

• Note the size of the backup you want to restore.

• Follow the steps in our Creating a persistent 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

OpenStack Horizon¶

To restore a backup of a volume by using OpenStack Horizon

• Under Project, click Volumes and then Backups in the sidebar menu.

• Note the size of the backup you want to restore.

• Follow the steps in our Creating a persistent 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 by using the OpenStack Terminal Client

• Run this command: openstack volume backup list, note the size of the backup that you want to restore and the backup ID.

• Follow the steps in our Creating a persistent volume guide to create a new empty volume of the same size as the backup. Note the new volume ID, of find the volume with command openstack volume list.

• Run this command: openstack volume backup restore --force [BACKUP_ID] [VOLUME_ID]