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Restore VM & keep original

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Hi,

Hopefully someone can let me know if this is possible as I haven't had much experience restoring backups.

We have a server backed up in Veeam that I want to leave running and unchanged, but at the same time I want to restore one of the oldest backups and see the restored server at the same time as the original (although I don't need it on the LAN as I don't want to upset the network).

If I use a full VM restore and select a different server & datastore than the original is this the correct way to do this and it will not interfere with the current live one? I am worried that it will have the same name.
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You will also need to rename the VM you're going to restore. On a side note, if you want to keep this VM running only for a short period of time, then I would suggest using On-Demand sandbox functionality and SureBackup jobs for this purpose. Let me know if that helps!
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Thanks for that, helped greatly.

We don't have the enterprise licence so could not use Sandbox but that is defiantly now on our wish list as I have looked into the SureBackup as you described and it looks brilliant!
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You could also disable the network in VM settings prior to starting it after the restore.
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Thanks, I have renamed as suggested and disabled networking and now have the backup working so I can use it and haven't upset the original.
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