A system administrator uses backups to restore VMware Automation Orchestrator to a functional state after a system failure.
After you restore the images from the backup, you must power on all the nodes at the same time.
![VMware Aria Orchestrator Startup Order](images/GUID-4519FB2C-5A4A-4A6E-BCA4-69D10A3A325B-high.png)
The VMware Automation Orchestrator server status appears as Service is starting. The first boot can take 5 to 10 minutes because the server is installing the VMware Automation Orchestrator plug-in's content in the database tables.
A message states that the service has started successfully.