Purpose

This article documents how to detect and clean up the restored disks of a Linux machine that used Logical Volume Manager (LVM), was backed up with Veeam Agent for Linux, and restored to a hypervisor VM or cloud computing platform. This issue is documented in the following Veeam Agent for Linux user guide restore sections: Restore Veeam Agent backups to VMware vSphere VMs Restore Veeam Agent backups to Hyper-V VMs Restore Veeam Agent backups to Nutanix AHV VMs Restore Veeam Agent backups to Proxmox VE VMs Restore Veeam Agent backups to oVirt KVM VM Restore disks from Veeam Agent backups to oVirt KVM VM Restore data from Veeam Agent backups to Microsoft Azure Restore data from Veeam Agent backups to Amazon EC2 Restore data from Veeam Agent backups to Google Compute Engine

Challenge

The current design results in the restored machine having more disks than the original machine had, leading to increased storage consumption and potentially extra cost.

Solution