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

Choose a virtual machine/VM Template/Host that you wish to restore.

Now, select the Download VMs/Disks option and click Next.

Step 2: Choose the Restore point

• 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.
• Full backup and Incremental backup restore points are viewed in the dropdown box structure.
• 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.
• If the restore point is denoted with symbols (d), (w), (m), (+P) at the end, it indicates the following:
  • Daily Merge (d)
  • Weekly Merge (w)
  • Monthly Merge (m)
  • Persistent boot changes (+P)

Daily, Weekly, and Monthly merges take place based on the retention policies you have configured.

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

• 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.
• 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.
• Select any of the following Virtual File formats to download the backup from the dropdown:
  • VHD
  • VMDK
  • VHDX
  • Flat-VMDK
  • RAW

Step 4: Review & Restore

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