Cloning an AWS instance

Limitations

  • You cannot restore instances that belong to a deleted AWS account. Such instances are not listed in the Instances panel of the R‑Cloud web user interface.

  • You cannot restore an instance to a different source or AWS region from a snapshot.

  • For instances running Windows: Using post-restore scripts is not supported.

Considerations

For the Disk Labeling option:

  • During the restore, R‑Cloud applies its own labels to the disks to identify the original disk, the original instance, and the date of the restore. These labels include the hycu- prefix and cannot be removed.

  • In AWS, the term tags is used for the labels.

Procedure

  1. In the Instances panel, click the instance that you want to restore to open the Detail view.

    Note  The Detail view appears only if you click an instance. Selecting the check box before the name of the instance will not open the Detail view.

  2. In the Detail view that appears at the bottom of the screen, select the preferred restore point.

  3. Click Restore Instance Restore Instance.

  1. Select Clone Options, and then click Next.

  2. Select Clone Instance, and then click Next.

  3. In the New Instance Name field, specify a new name for the instance.

  4. From the Restore From drop-down menu, select which tier you want to use for the restore. Your restore point can contain one or more tiers among which you can select:

    • Automatic: This option ensures the fastest and most cost-effective restore.

    • Backup (Snapshot)

    • Backup (Target)

    • Copy

    • Archive—(daily, weekly, monthly, yearly)

  1. Only if the original operating system image was not found. From the Image drop-down menu, select the operating system image that you want to use. To use a custom image, select Use custom image and enter the image AMI ID.

  2. Optional. In the Post-restore Script field, enter the path to the script or a command that R‑Cloud should run on the restored instance after the restore.

    Note  You can enter any command that the command-line interface of your instance supports.

  3. From the Destination Source drop-down menu, select the source to which you want to restore the instance. The original source of the instance is preselected. You can choose from sources that belong to the currently selected protection set and that your user account can access.

  4. From the Destination Region and Destination Zone drop-down menus, select the region and the zone to which you want to restore the instance. The original region and zone of the instance are preselected.

  5. From the Disk Labeling drop-down menu, select how all the disks of the original instance should be labeled on the restored instance. You can select among the following options:
    OptionDescription
    Keep original disk labels (default)

    The disks will retain the labels they had at the time of the backup.

    Use instance labelsThe original labels of the disks will be replaced with the labels of the restored instance.
    Remove disk labels The original labels of the disks will be removed.
    Merge original disk and instance labels The original disk labels will be combined with the labels of the restored instance. If a label key exists in both sets of labels, the value from the restored instance will be used.

  6. Under Disk Name, do the following:

    1. Select the instance disks that you want to restore.

      Note  All disks of the instance are preselected for the restore. With such selection, the entire instance is restored. The boot disk is restored even if you do not select it.

    2. Edit the disks as required. For each selected disk, do the following:

      1. Click Edit Edit Disk.

      2. Only if you do not want R‑Cloud to automatically generate a name for the restored disk device or disk. Do the following:

        1. In the New Device Name field, enter a name for the restored disk device.

        2. In the New Disk Name field, enter a name for the restored disk.

      3. If you want to change the disk type, from the Disk Type drop-down menu, select one of the available disk types for the restored disk. By default, the original disk type is selected.

        The list shows only the disk types that match the required disk size and can include the following disk types: General Purpose SSD, Previous Generation Volume, and Provisioned IOPS SSD.

        If you selected Provisioned IOPS SSD or General Purpose SSD, enter the IOPS number.

      4. Only if you want to add labels to the restored disk.

        1. Click Advanced.

        2. Click Manage Manage.

        3. Enter a key and a value, and then click Add for each label that you want to add. If the selected disk already has one or more labels added, they are listed under Advanced. If you want to delete any of the added labels, click Delete Delete next to it.

          Note  During the restore, any labels you added are treated as the original disk labels. These labels will be applied on the restored disks if you select one of the following options in the Disk Labeling step: Keep original disk labels (default) or Merge original disk and instance labels. For the latter option, the label keys must not match the keys used on the destination instance.

      5. Click Save.

  7. Under Network Interfaces, review the list of networks that the original instance was configured in at the time of backup. The list shows the following for each such network:

    • VPC ID

    • Subnet ID

    For each configured network interface, you can separately adjust its public and private IP address types. By default, the public IP address configuration of the original instance is kept.

    If you want to modify network settings, you can add an additional network interface, edit an existing network interface, or delete a network interface:

    • Click Add Network Interface to add a network interface or click Edit Edit next to the network interface that you want to edit, and then follow these steps:

      1. From the Subnet drop-down menu, select the subnet.
      2. From the Security Groups drop-down menu, select the security groups.

      3. In the Public Address Type field, select the public IP address for the network interface. You can select among the following options:

        Option Description
        None

        The network interface does not use a public IP address.

        This option is preselected if the network interface of the original instance did not use a public IP address.
        Auto-assign

        The network interface uses an automatically allocated public IP address.

        This option is preselected if the network interface of the original instance used a public IP address.

        Note  Auto-assign will not work if the Auto-assign public IPv4 address on a subnet option is set to No or if more than one network interface is specified.
        Elastic IP (Reserved) The network interface uses an elastic public IP address that was reserved in Amazon EC2 in advance.
        Elastic IP (New)

        The network interface uses a new elastic public IP address.

        Note  Allocation of the IP address in Amazon EC2 is performed at the very beginning of the restore. If the allocation fails, the restore task is terminated without being logged.

      4. In the Private Address Type field, select the private IP address for the network interface. You can select between the following options:

        Option Description
        Auto-assign

        The network interface uses an automatically allocated private IP address.

        This option is selected by default.
        Custom

        The network interface uses a private IP address that is defined by you.

        Important  Use of this option might result in IP address conflicts.

      5. Click Add or Save.

    • Click Delete Delete next to the network interface that you want to delete. Keep in mind that you cannot restore the instance without a network interface.

  8. Only if you want to add tags to the restored instance.

    1. Click Advanced.

    2. For each custom metadata tag that you want to add, click Manage Manage.

    3. Enter a key and a value, and then click Add.

      Note  If the selected instance already has one or more custom metadata tags added, they are listed under Custom Metadata. If you want to delete any of the added custom metadata tags, click Delete Delete next to it.

  9. Click Restore.