User`s guide

Operations on Virtual Machines and Containers 46
Restoring Backups
To restore any individual virtual machines and Containers or entire Parallels servers, you may
want to view first the information about them. This can be done using the prestore -l
command:
# prestore -l -n test.com test.com
[e-mail]'s password:
...
Backups for node test.com:
ID Backup_ID
Node Date Type Size
101 [e-mail]
test.com 2009-06-30 09:42:19 f 18721280
{cd91b90b-469d-42c6-acf4-fefee09cfa61} {4ef87485-ec3b-4594-896b-c7ccbee859b5}
test.com 2009-07-16 17:15:47 f 92617398
The command output shows that currently only two backups exist for the test.com server on
the Backup Server. If you omit the -n test.com option, the command will list:
 all Container backups for the test.com server stored on the Backup Server
 all virtual machine backups for the test.com server stored on the test.com server
The information on the backups is presented in the following table:
Column Name Description
ID
The ID uniquely identifying the virtual machine and Container.
Backup ID
The ID assigned to the backup archive. You need to specify this ID
when performing any backup-related operations.
Node
The hostname of the Source Server.
Date
The date and time when the backup archive was created.
Type
The backup type. Currently, you can create two types of backups:
 A full backup indicated by f.
 An incremental backup indicated by i and containing only the files
changed since the previous full or incremental backup. This is the
default backup type.
Size
The size of the backup archive, in bytes.
To restore Container 101 and the {cd91b90b-469d-42c6-acf4-fefee09cfa61}
virtual machine, run this command:
# prestore -n test.com -e 101 {cd91b90b-469d-42c6-acf4-fefee09cfa61}
This command will restore the Container and the virtual machine to their Source Server.
You can also use the -d option to restore Container 101 to a Parallels server other than the
Source Node. For example, this command
# prestore -d 192.168.10.199 test.com -e 101
restores Container 101 to the Destination Server with IP address 192.168.10.199. If you
want to restore all Containers backups for the test.com Parallels server, just skip the -e
option.