Pre-requisite: EWC - OpenStack Command-Line client

Restoring Backups

  1. To restore a backup to a new volume, first you need to detach the volume from the VM:
    1. ssh into your VM
    2. become root
    3. unmount the volume 

      sudo umount --verbose <path-to-volume>

  2. Then you can restore the backup to the volume with OpenStack (from the machine where you are running Openstack commands):

openstack volume backup restore BACKUP_ID VOLUME_ID

Where:


3. Now, you need to attach the volume again to the VM as explained in `Configuring the extra volume in the instance`.