Backup and recovery

Backup

In this step, you will back up one or more virtual machines to the centralized vault you created.

1. In the welcome screen, click Create backup plan.
2. Click Items to back up. In Data to back up, select Virtual machines.
3. Select the virtual machines that you want to back up.
4. Click Location, expand Vaults, and then specify the vault you have created.
5. Click OK to start backing up the virtual machines.

Recovery

In this step, you will recover the disks of a backed-up virtual machine to an existing virtual machine on the Hyper-V host.

1. In the Navigation tree, expand Vaults > Centralized and then select the vault where you saved the archives. If prompted, provide access credentials for the vault.
2. In the Data view tab, in Show, select Disks.
3. Select the virtual machine that you want to recover. Under Versions, select a recovery point. By default, the latest recovery point is selected.

   Details. Instead of recovering the entire virtual machine, you can recover individual disks of it.

4. Click Recover.
5. Under Where to recover, in Recover to, select Existing virtual machine.
6. Click Browse, and then select the Hyper-V host to which you want to recover the virtual machine.
7. Click Select, and then select an existing virtual machine, either the same one you have backed up (recommended for getting started), or a different one.

   Details. By default, the agent will automatically stop this virtual machine before starting the recovery to it. The machine must be powered off during the recovery for the recovery task to succeed.

8. If required, do the following for every disk found in the backup:
   1. Сlick Recover 'Disk N' to: and choose the destination disk from the disks of the existing machine.
   2. In NT signature, leave the default setting: Select automatically.
9. Click OK to immediately start the recovery.