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Recovering a virtual machine

Virtual machine recovery enables you to recover 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.