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Details. You are taken to the Recover data view. The screen heading displays the generated

name of the virtual appliance so you remember on which ESX/ESXi server you are operating.

6. Under What to recover, in Data type, select Disks.

Details. By default, all disks found in the backup will be recovered.

7. Under Where to recover, in Recover to, select Existing virtual machine.

8. In Virtual machine, click Change. Select the existing virtual machine, either the same one you

have backed up, or another.

9. For every disk found in the backup: in Recover 'Disk N' to:, click Change and choose the

destination disk from the disks of the existing machine. In NT signature, leave the default setting

Create new.

10. Under Recovery options, in Settings, click Change. Select VM power management. Select the

Power off target virtual machines when starting recovery check box. Alternatively, power off

the target virtual machine using your vSphere client.

Details. A virtual machine has to be stopped during the recovery to this machine. Otherwise the

recovery task will fail.

11. Click OK to immediately start the recovery.

Monitoring the task progress and results

You are taken to the All physical machines view. The corresponding virtual appliance and its

Information > Backup plans and tasks tab are selected. Here you can see the recovery task's

execution state: Running. To view the recovery task's log, right-click the task and select View log.

What else you can do

 Recover a physical machine from a backup to a new or existing virtual machine

 Recover individual disks or volumes to a new or existing virtual machine

 Resize disks and volumes during recovery

 Configure other settings of the new virtual machine

 Postpone the recovery to the date and time you specify.

8.4 Backing up multiple machines centrally by using a

backup policy

By following the instructions listed in this section, you will set up a regular backup of all virtual

machines that are present on the ESX server at the time of backup.

8.4.1 Creating a backup policy

In this step, you will set up a backup policy to back up entire machines to the centralized vault you

have created. Such policy can be applied to physical or virtual machines or groups of them.

1. In the Navigation tree, right-click Backup policies, and then click Create backup policy.

2. Under What to back up, in Items to back up selection rules, click Change and select [All

volumes] from the drop-down list.

Details. The [All volumes] selection rule means backing up all volumes on machines running

Windows, and all mounted volumes on machines running Linux.