@@ -161,6 +161,27 @@ of an expunged Instance will not restore nics and recovery any network which may
161161not exist. User may however restore a specific volume from an Instance backup and attach
162162that volume to a specified Instance.
163163
164+ Creating a new Instance from Backup
165+ -----------------------------------
166+
167+ Since 4.21, Users can create a new Instance from a backup. The backup table will also store
168+ the instance configuration details at the time of taking the backup such as service offering,
169+ template, disk offering of all data volumes, networks attached to etc.
170+ The new Instance will be created with the same configuration as the original Instance
171+ from which the backup was taken with all the data from the backup.
172+
173+ |B&R-CreateInstanceFromBackup.png |
174+
175+ Users can also choose to configure the new Instance with different parameters similar to while deploying a new Instance.
176+ The form will be initially prefilled with the values stored in the backup.
177+
178+ |B&R-ConfigureInstance.png |
179+
180+ This will also work if the original Instance and the volumes used to create the backup are expunged.
181+ If one or few of the resources stored in the backup such as template, networks etc are no longer available
182+ in the system, the user will be prompted to reconfigure the Instance before creating it from backup.
183+ This feature is supported for Dummy, NAS and Veeam plugins.
184+
164185Supported APIs:
165186~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
166187
@@ -196,3 +217,9 @@ Supported APIs:
196217.. |B&R-BackupScheduleEntry.png | image :: /_static/images/B&R-BackupScheduleEntry.png
197218 :alt: Creating a backup schedule for an Instance.
198219 :width: 400px
220+ .. |B&R-CreateInstanceFromBackup.png|.png | image :: /_static/images/B&R-CreateInstanceFromBackup.png
221+ :alt: Creating a new Instance from a backup.
222+ :width: 300px
223+ .. |B&R-ConfigureInstance.png|.png|.png | image :: /_static/images/B&R-ConfigureInstance.png
224+ :alt: Configure Instance parameters before creating it from backup.
225+ :width: 400px
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