6.19.2 KVM System Recovery Scenarios

How to recover a KVM system deployment.

The following scenarios are applicable to a KVM system recovery:

• Recovering a KVM Host and the Guests from Backup
  This procedure recovers the KVM host and all its guest from a backup of the KVM host and a backup of the guests from the KVM host.
• Re-imaging a KVM Host and Restoring the Guests from Backup
  This procedure re-images the management domain and reconstructs all the user domains from a backup of the KVM guests.
• Recover and Restart a KVM Guest
  From the KVM host you can recover a specific guest.
• Restoring and Recovering Guests from Snapshot Backups
  This procedure can be used to restore lost or damaged files of a KVM guest using a snapshot-based backup of the guest taken from inside the guest.