Download VMs & Disks: Download VM backups for seamless cross-platform migration.

Download VMs & Disks: Download VM backups for seamless cross-platform migration.

Download VMs/Disks

Download option allows you to download backup images of VMware Virtual machines/VM Templates/Host to multiple virtual machine file formats such as VHD, VMDK, VHDX, Flat-VMDK, and RAW.  These virtual file formats can be used to perform Cross-Hypervisor migration (V2V) or Cross-Platform migration (V2P) of your backup VMware/Hyper-V/Windows Disk Image VM(s)/Host(s).

Steps to perform Download VM(s)/Disk(s)

Step 1: Choose the virtual machine/VM Template/Host and Restore Type

  1. Choose a virtual machine/VM Template/Host that you wish to restore.
  2. Now, select the Download VMs/Disks option and click Next.

Step 2: Choose the Restore point

  1. Select a restore point to restore the backup data. BDRSuite Backup Server retains the restore points as per the retention policy you have selected for the backup job.
  2. Full backup and Incremental backup restore points are viewed in the dropdown box structure.
  3. Each incremental restore point is a virtual full backup that makes full data recovery possible in each step. This makes the restoration process easier without having to recover a full backup and all the previous increments.
  4. If the restore point is denoted with symbols (d), (w), (m), (+P) at the end, it indicates the following
                  1.Daily Merge (d)
                  2.Weekly Merge (w)
                  3.Monthly Merge (m)
                  4.Persistent boot changes (+P)
  1. Daily, Weekly, and Monthly merges take place based on the retention policies you have configured.
  2. If you select Restore version time-stamp with (+P), then you have enabled the option to ’Include persistent boot changes during restore’ option that includes the changes you performed in the VM/Host during the instant boot restore process.

Step 3: Select VM(s)/VM Templates/Disk(s) to Download

  1. Select the files and folders you want to restore, by expanding the virtual machine/VM Template/ Host tree and their disks and configure the Restore options.
  2. Choose the target location to download the backed up virtual machine/VM Template/ Disk data. You can download the data to the local drive, or any network shared drive mapped to the BDRSuite Backup Server.
  3. Select any of the following Virtual File formats to download the backup from the dropdown
                  1.VHD
                  2.VMDK
                  3.VHDX
                  4.Flat-VMDK
                  5.RAW

Step 4: Review & Restore

  1. Review the recovery configuration you have selected and click on Restore to start downloading the backup data in desired virtual file format.
  2. On successful recovery, you can find the downloaded disk on the specified location.

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