What is the difference between Entire Recovery and Instant Recovery?

[hoon0715]

Hi, all.

Veeam provides a well documented KB, but I am still confused about the difference between the two.

Below is what I understand.
1. Instant recovery takes faster time to recover than Entire recovery.
2. Instant recovery is useful for finding recovery points that want. (like Ransomware situation)

Is there a reason why many people need to use Entire recovery? What advantages does it have over Instant recovery?
Should Instant Recovery be used for testing purposes only? Is it inappropriate to continue using it?

Thank you in advance.

Best regards.

[HannesK]

Hello,

if your backup storage is (too) slow, then it might make more sense to do (CBT) restore instead of Instant Recovery. Because the storage-VMotion from the backup storage to production can be time-consuming and have negative impact depending on the backup-storage

Instant recovery can be used for production, sure. It saved many lives of administrators

Best regards,
Hannes

[hoon0715]

Thanks for reply !
Then.. if the backup storage is not slow... Can I just use Instant recovery?

Best regards.

[HannesK]

you can also use it with slow backup storages... the VM running from it is just slow then.

I remember one of my first customers 6 years ago told me that he was running his Exchange server from a SOHO NAS system (I don't remember, QNAP, Synology, something like that... 8 disks I believe)