[Feature Request] - Appliance Spot Restore

[JustBackupSomething]

Hi all,

Been a Veeam power user for a few years now and love the product. Any chance of being able to do an instant recovery on the Veeam appliance if it has sufficient resources?

ie. We have a primary backup host and a backup copy. At the moment, we're running VBR in a Hyper-V VM with backups stored on the hosts RAID. If we move our VBR to the new appliance, id like to be able to keep the ability to instant recover on the host machine without another set of hardware running idle.

Is this something that is already known or being worked on?

[vnikiforov]

Hello, Luke,

The Veeam Software Appliance appliance is deliberately a single-purpose, locked-down system: it ships as a RockyLinux 9.6 CIQ OS with only the services its backup roles need without a direct root level access, and it must be installed on a dedicated empty machine (physical or virtual). It is not possible to add a hypervisor to it. Instant Recovery requires a supported virtualization platform registered in the backup infrastructure as its target.

This is a common case, where customers run a VM with a backup server (either Windows or Linux, it does not matter) inside an existing hypervisor and add that hypervisor to inventory inside the VBR to be an Instant Recovery target.