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Convert backup to a virtual machine with Backup Exec

Convert backup to a virtual machine with Backup Exec

From the course: System Administration: Backup and Recovery

Convert backup to a virtual machine with Backup Exec

- [Instructor] I'm in backup exec and I want to convert my server that I've backed up here at 21.210 to be a virtual machine and this has a lot of advantages. For one, if your physical computer has broken and you don't have a replacement, you can convert it to be a virtual machine. Or in case you're just migrating all your servers in that direction, then this works as well. So you see I have a successful full backup, so now I'm going to go to convert to virtual. So if I've had multiple different backups, I could choose which backup I'd like to convert to a virtual machine, but I just have the one, so I'll choose a one-time convert to virtual machine and I need to click on the edit on the right hand side to go to the conversion settings, because you have more than one option here. If you are wanting to restore to a VMware server, you could choose convert to that. In my case, I am using Hyper V for my host. So I'll choose the…

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