Important Some of the features described in this section were introduced in version 12.5, which affects only on-premise deployments. These features are not yet available in cloud deployments. For more information, refer to "What's new in Acronis Backup".
Conversion to a virtual machine is available only for disk-level backups. If a backup includes the system volume and contains all of the information necessary for the operating system to start, the resulting virtual machine can start on its own. Otherwise, you can add its virtual disks to another virtual machine.
Conversion methods
There are two ways to configure a regular conversion:
The conversion will be performed after each backup (if configured for the primary location) or after each replication (if configured for the second and further locations).
This method enables you to specify a separate conversion schedule.
This method enables you to choose disks for recovery and adjust the settings for each virtual disk. Use this method to perform the conversion once or occasionally, for example, to perform a physical-to-virtual migration.