Restore and Recover Your Data
AvePoint Cloud Backup for IaaS + PaaS provides robust solutions for quickly recovering or exporting your backup data of various Azure and Amazon services. Whether it’s Azure VMs, Microsoft Entra ID, Azure Storage, Admin Portal Settings, Azure SQL, Azure DevOps, Amazon EC2, Azure AD B2C, Google VM instances, or AWS Platform Configurations objects (Private preview), we’ve got you covered.
Azure VM and Azure Storage
- You can choose to restore the backup data to its original location or another place.
- You can also choose to export the backup data of the folders and files in Azure VM and Azure storage. For details, refer to [Export and Download Your Data](#missing-link).
- If the disk snapshots of Azure VM exist, both the in-place and out-of-place restore jobs for Azure VMs can restore data from snapshots. For details, refer to [Azure Virtual Machines](#missing-link).
Amazon EC2
- For Amazon EC2, both the in-place and out-of-place restores for instances and devices are supported. For details, refer to [Restore Instance](#missing-link) and [Restore Devices](#missing-link).
- Google VM Instance
- For Google VM instance, both the in-place and out-of-place restores for instances and disks are supported. For details, refer to [Restore Instances](#missing-link) and [Restore Disks](#missing-link).
Microsoft Entra ID
- For Microsoft Entra ID data recovery, you can perform both in-place and out-of-place restores for groups and users. However, for other data types, only the in-place restore is supported.
- You can restore app registrations, enterprise applications, groups, users, administrative units, or roles and administrators. The restore job can keep the object ID for the users or groups that have not yet been permanently deleted and the Overwrite, Merge, and Skip are the available options for conflict resolution during restore.
- You can download the properties of the Microsoft Entra users at specific recovery points to a local location and use the downloaded script to import the users with the downloaded properties.
- You can copy the BitLocker key from the backup. For details, refer to [Copy BitLocker Recovery Keys](#missing-link).
- You can export the backup data of sign-in logs and audit logs. For details, refer to [Export and Download Your Data](#missing-link)
Admin Portal Settings
- For Admin Portal Settings, you can not only export the backup data of the components to a JSON file, but also restore some settings to their original location. For the settings you can export or restore, refer to [Admin Portal Settings](#missing-link). For details on exporting data, refer to [Export and Download Your Data](#missing-link).
Azure SQL
- For Azure SQL databases, the restoration of both monitored databases and backup databases is supported.
- To restore the retrieved native Azure backups for databases, refer to [Restore Monitored Databases](#missing-link).
- To restore backup databases and [Restore Backup Databases](#missing-link).
- You can choose to replace the existing database using the backup data or restoring the database to the same SQL server by creating a database with a new name.
Azure DevOps
- For Azure DevOps organizations, you can restore the backup items to its original location.
- Azure AD B2C
- For Azure AD B2C data, you can restore the backup data to its original location.
- AWS Platform Configurations (Private preview)
- The AWS Platform Configurations service now supports only the export of objects. For details, refer to [Export and Download Your Data](#missing-link).
To find the data you want to restore through the Restore wizard, you can choose to use the classic Recovery Point method to search in a backup job for the data you want to restore, or you can now use the Compare method to compare two recovery points or compare the backup data with the data in a production environment for the differences. Note that the Compare method is available in the Microsoft Entra ID service and Admin Portal Settings service. It supports comparing for Microsoft Entra users and groups, as well as for Intune and Microsoft Entra ID modules within Admin Portal Settings.
- Using the **Recovery** **point** method, you will select the service that you want to restore and then a calendar appears displaying all the data recovery points of this service. You can switch the display of recovery points between the **Month** view and **Day** view and choose whether to display the finished with the exception or failed jobs in the calendar by selecting the **Include jobs with only partial backup data** option.
Hover over the data recovery point to view the job details, including the backup scope name, scope ID, job status, job finished time, job ID, backup size, and the number of objects in a backup.
- The **Compare** method supports comparing two recovery points or comparing the backup data with the data in your Microsoft Entra ID production environment. You need to first provide the comparison conditions, such as the tenant’s name and the data type to compare, and select the recovery points that you want to compare. Then, generate a comparison report. You can go to the **View Compared Results** tile to check the comparison job progress and continue with the restore using the comparison report. For details, refer to [Use the Compare Method](#missing-link).
