Important: Before you can restore a virtual machine, you must have a successful backup in your Recovery Services Vault. Please refer to the KB article: Backup a Virtual Machine in Microsoft Azure.
Step 1:
Login to your Microsoft Azure web portal. Your dashboard might look similar to the image shown below. Click on the ‘Virtual Machines’ blade on the left side.
Step 2:
Select the virtual machine you wish to restore. In this scenario we’ll be selecting ‘HostwayBackup01.’
Step 3:
Click on the ‘Backup’ option, under the Operation section.
Step 4:
Under this section, you’ll notice all relevant information regarding your backups. Including restore points and backup policies. Select the ‘Restore VM’ option:
Step 5:
Select a restore point that you want to revert back to. In this example, we’ll simply select the most recent backup job. Then click on ‘OK.’
Step 6:
In this section, you can select different restore options – depending on your requirements. For simplicity, we’ll create a new virtual machine and we’ll leave the default options.
Take special note for the virtual machine name, it’s best practice to specify a different value than the original name. Once satisfied with the values, select ‘OK.’
Step 7:
Click ‘Restore’ to finalize the restoration request. This process might take some time to complete.
Step 8:
You can monitor the restore progress by click on the Recovery Services Vault blade > Jobs > Backup Jobs section.
Tip: You can easily find the Recovery Services Vault by using the search bar at the top of the page:
Our restoration job has completed!
If you click on the job, you can view the restoration job details:
Step 9:
You can view and connect to your newly restored virtual machine by navigating to the ‘Virtual Machines’ blade.
Virtual machine overview:
