{"id":9367,"date":"2015-07-30T01:27:43","date_gmt":"2015-07-29T21:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.msp360.com\/blog\/?p=9367"},"modified":"2024-01-03T16:23:29","modified_gmt":"2024-01-03T12:23:29","slug":"how-to-perform-physical-to-virtual-restores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/blog\/how-to-perform-physical-to-virtual-restores\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Perform Physical to Virtual Restores with MSP360 Backup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/backup\/\">MSP360 Backup<\/a> allows you to restore your system from an existing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/blog\/file-level-vs-image-level-backup\/\">image-based backup<\/a> to\u00a0Hyper-V or VMware virtual machines.<!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"table-of-content \">\n\t\t\t\t<p>Table of Contents<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<ul><\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<h2>Performing Physical to Virtual Restore<\/h2>\n<p>Start the Restore Wizard by clicking the <strong>Restore<\/strong> <strong>button<\/strong> on the MSP360 Backup toolbar and follow the Wizard steps.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9146 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Restore_button.12.png\" alt=\"Restore_button.1\" width=\"613\" height=\"143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Restore_button.12.png 613w, https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Restore_button.12-300x70.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 613px) 100vw, 613px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When Restore Wizard prompts you to select the type of data for restore, just go ahead and choose to <strong>Restore Image-Based Backup <\/strong>option then hit<strong> Next.<\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9147\" src=\"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/restore_image.2.png\" alt=\"restore_image.2\" width=\"442\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/restore_image.2.png 651w, https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/restore_image.2-300x234.png 300w, https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/restore_image.2-624x487.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 442px) 100vw, 442px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Select<strong> Restore as a virtual disk<\/strong> option\u00a0and choose the desired virtual file format from the corresponding drop-down list.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/ptv_restore1.png\" alt=\"ptv_restore\" width=\"440\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/ptv_restore1.png 669w, https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/ptv_restore1-300x236.png 300w, https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/ptv_restore1-624x491.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Select the partitions you would like to restore.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10853\" src=\"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/partitions_new.png\" alt=\"partitions_new\" width=\"454\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/partitions_new.png 659w, https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/partitions_new-300x234.png 300w, https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/partitions_new-624x488.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 454px) 100vw, 454px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Specify some local folder to restore the selected partitions to and specify a name for the virtual disk file.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9379\" src=\"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/destination.11.png\" alt=\"destination.1\" width=\"451\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/destination.11.png 658w, https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/destination.11-300x236.png 300w, https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/destination.11-624x490.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 451px) 100vw, 451px\" \/> Complete the rest of the Restore Wizard steps to finally create a virtual disk!<\/p>\n<p>The next step is to <strong>create a virtual machine<\/strong> using Hyper-V Manager or VMware Workstation tools. When creating the new virtual machine, just <strong>add a hard drive\u00a0<\/strong>you have made with MSP360 Backup to this machine.<\/p>\n<h2>Restoring to the Different Types of Virtual Machines<\/h2>\n<p>If you are going to restore your<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/blog\/file-level-vs-image-level-backup\/\"> image-based backup<\/a> to Hyper-V virtual machine, then during the creation of this machine in the Virtual Machine Wizard you should specify <strong>the Generation-2<\/strong> option. However, please be advised that it is required only if you made your image-based backup in the machine that is running on the SCSI controller and uses EFI for the system boot. On the machines, that boot through BIOS and run on IDE or SATA controllers, it is better to specify <strong>Generation 1<\/strong> option with the IDE controller.<\/p>\n<p>If you are restoring your image-based backup on VirtualBox and VMware then it's better the same controller as you had in the source machine.<\/p>\n<h2>Summary<\/h2>\n<p>In this article, we reviewed the process of restoring image-based backups as a virtual Hyper-V or vSphere disk. If you'd like to <strong>restore your image-based backups as full-fledged vSphere virtual machines<\/strong>, feel free to read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/blog\/restoring-image-based-backups-as-vsphere-instances\/\">our article<\/a> that covers the process as exemplified by MSP360 Backup 5.7.<\/p>\n<p>You can try MSP360 Backup with new features for free! Just download the 15-day fully-functional trial version of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/backup\/\">MSP360\u00a0Backup<\/a> and check if our backup solution meets your needs and requirements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MSP360 Backup allows you to restore your system from an existing image-based backup to\u00a0Hyper-V or VMware virtual machines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[877,894,882],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-articles","category-msp360-backup","category-msp360-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9367"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57116,"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9367\/revisions\/57116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}