Export to disk option missing

[Simonj69]

Hi everyone

I am currently attempting to export a backup to disk, however, following through the guide, when I get to the part where I right click the agent within the backups node, the option to export disk contents as virtual disk is missing

Am I missing something obvious?

Thanks

Simon

[Egor Yakovlev]

Hi Simon
"Export Backup" to disk and "Export disk"(as in Agent->Virtual) are quite different. Which one you are trying?

[Simonj69]

Hi Egor

Thanks for your reply

I am trying Agent > Virtual

Want to export to a virtual disk to import to vmware vsphere on a different network

I did manage to export the backup earlier but then realised that wasn't what I needed

Thanks

Simon

[Egor Yakovlev]

And to be sure: you have Veeam Agent backup visible in Veeam Backup and Replication GUI? Just wondering what could have go wrong way...

[Simonj69]

Hi Egor

Thaks again for your reply

My experiance with Veeam is very limited at the moment, only really just getting to know my way around it

On the left of the screen I have Jobs, Backups, Replicas and Last 24 Hours

I am expanding Backups, selecting Disks, right clicking the required backup and getting the following options:

Instant VM recovery
Instant Disk recovery
Restore online VM
Restore Virtual disks
Restore VM files
Restore to Amazon
Restore to Azure
Export backups
Delete from disk

Hope that helps

Simon

[Egor Yakovlev]

Those are options for VM level backup, made without Veeam agent.
For those:
- You can use "Restore Virtual disks" to restore and map disk from backup directly to selected VM
- You can use "Restore VM files" to export particular VMDK\VHDX disk and move it over for manual operations

[Simonj69]

Hi Egor

Thanks for the info, i think the option I am going to try is the 2nd one then, I assume this will give me a VHDX file in the default location I can then copy to a portable disk

Thanks for your assistance

Simon

[Egor Yakovlev]

You are most welcome.
Btw, "Restore VM files" 2nd page of a wizard asks where to dump files to, so you should be able to select portable disk straight away
/Cheers!