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Recovering a virtual machine

Virtual machine recovery allows the recovery of VMs running any operating system. This method restores the entire VM and associated metadata with the configured peripherals from any given Unitrends recovery point. The appliance uses the backup or imported backup copy to recreate the VM on the recovery target. The recovery target can be the original host or an alternate host running the same software version as the original or a later version.

Select a full backup, an incremental backup, or an imported backup copy for the recovery. With an incremental backup, the appliance uses all previous backups from the same backup group to recreate the VM.

Preparing to recover a virtual machine

Unitrends supports recovery on VMware and Hyper-V virtual machines. You can recover the VM to the original host or to another host that has been added to the backup appliance. If necessary, add the target host as described in Adding a virtual host before recovering a VM.

Recovering a VM