Recovery of virtual machines

You can recover a disk-level backup of a virtual machine to a physical machine or another virtual machine. For example, a disk-level backup is an Entire machine backup or a Disk/volumes backup that contains the system disk and boot disk.

Limitations

• In the Cyber Protect console, you cannot recover backups of machines that are registered in customer tenants in Compliance mode. See Recovering backups in tenants in Compliance mode.
• During a recovery to a virtual machine, Cyber Protect stops the target virtual machine without a prompt. After the recovery, you must restart this machine manually. You can change the default behavior in Recovery options > VM power management.
• You can recover a backup of a virtual machine to a physical machine if the disk configuration of the target machine exactly matches the disk configuration in the backup. Alternatively, you can perform a virtual-to-physical migration by a using bootable media. See Recovering disks by using bootable media.
• You cannot recover macOS virtual machines to Hyper-V hosts because Hyper-V does not support macOS. You can recover macOS virtual machines to a VMware host that is installed on Mac hardware.