restore foreign imported backup to an ESXi host

[fafa24]

Hello,

I have a little bit of a problem. Not sure if it works that way or what I do wrong.

I received the vbk and vbm file - just one restore point - from external. It was taken wih Veeam Agent for Windows 3.0. I imported the file too the VBR server. This worked fine. I see in Home, Backups, Disk Imported, Agents and underneath the name of the server.

I would like to restore the entire server to an ESXi host which is registerred on the VBR server. Not sure how it works, if at all possible. I look at the wizard and it appears that it is not possible.

For example when I click the restore icon on the home tab, choose Agent, entire machine restore, instant recovery, I can add the server name, but not assign a host to recover to.

The VBR server is 9.5v4a

Thanks
Edy

[Dima P.]

Hello Edy,

Veeam B&R currently can not perform entire vm restore to VMware from agent backup file (due to the platform differences). As a potential workaround you can convert disks from agent backup to virtual format or perform Bare Metal Recovery via recovery media .iso to a blank VM. Cheers!

[fafa24]

Hello

Thanks for your response. I try the workaround and exporting the disk to VMDK format. I guess afterwards I can directly copy the files to the ESXi datastore. Right?

Thanks
Edy

[Dima P.]

Edy,

Yes, after disk was exported you copy it to the datastore and mount to a blank or existing VM. This Help Center article should have all the 'export' steps listed. Let us know how it goes or if you have any further questions. Cheers!

[fafa24]

Thanks - it worked perfectly with adding the vmdk disk to a new vm. I just needed to remove the disk and add an existing disk in the vm configuration.

Cheers
Edy