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tinto1970
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Questions about backup and RESTORE of Windows failover clusters

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Good day all,

I have and will have to deal with a customer using a lot of Windows Failover Cluster (with VMs and RMDs).

The documentation is pretty clear: you have to create Protection Groups as Active Directory Objects, add the cluster and create a Failover Cluster type job

https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backu ... ml?ver=120

I've also seen a really good post illustrating how to do it: https://community.veeam.com/blogs-and-p ... -step-2497

My problem is that I did not find anything regarding the restore process... other than this pretty short man page: https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backu ... ml?ver=120

Because of this, I have two questions in my mind:

1) is there some docs, posts, videos or anything like this explaining the restore process? I hope I missed it :wink:

2) I'm dealing with a situation where the BackupAdmins have created the PGs for failover clusters as Individual computers.
I fully understand this is wrong and has to be fixed, but I don't have a Time Machine so my question is: what's going to happen in case a restore from the "wrongly taken" backups must be performed? Which side effects/errors/issues are going to happen?

Thanks so much!
Alessandro aka Tinto | VMCE 2024 | Veeam Legend | VCP-DCV 2023 | vExpert 2025
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