What does a virtual machine backup store?

Backing up an entire virtual machine, its disks or volumes, results in a standard disk backup. A backup created at a hypervisor level also stores the virtual machine configuration. This configuration will be suggested by default when recovering the backup content to a new virtual machine.

You can recover disks and volumes from a virtual machine backup to a physical machine. Similarly, you can recover disks or volumes from a physical machine backup to a new or existing virtual machine. Hence, physical to virtual and virtual to physical machine migration becomes available.

With Agent for Windows or Agent for Linux, you can mount volumes from a virtual machine backup and recover individual files from it.