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b. Select whether to recover to a new or existing machine. The new machine option is
preferable as it does not require the disk configuration of the target machine to exactly
match the disk configuration in the backup.
c. Select the host and specify the new machine name, or select an existing target machine.
d. Click OK.
7. [Optional] When recovering to a new machine, you can also do the following:
Click Datastore for ESXi or Path for Hyper-V, and then select the datastore (storage) for the
virtual machine.
Сlick VM settings to change the memory size, the number of processors, and the network
connections of the virtual machine.
8. Click Start recovery.
9. When recovering to an existing virtual machine, confirm that you want to overwrite the disks.
The recovery progress is shown on the Activities tab.
2.9.3.3 Virtual machine
A virtual machine must be stopped during the recovery to this machine. The software stops the
machine without a prompt. When the recovery is completed, you have to start the machine
manually.
This behavior can be changed by using the VM power management recovery option (click Recovery
options > VM power management).
To recover a virtual machine
1. Do one of the following:
Select a backed-up machine, click Recovery, and then select a recovery point.