Article ID: m0739Last Modified: 22-Oct-2025

Restore to Virtual Disk in Backup Agent

  1. Repeat steps 1-9 of the Create Image-Based Restore Plan of the following article.
  2. On the Restore Type step, select Restore as virtual disk, then select the format of a virtual disk file.
    • Restore as physical disk: Restores the partitions selected later to a physical disk.
    • Restore as virtual disk: Restores the data as a virtual disk in multiple supported formats.
    • Restore to Amazon Web Services: Restores the data as either an EC2 machine, EBS volume, or Amazon Machine Image.
    • Restore to Microsoft Azure: Restores the image to either an Azure Virtual Machine or Azure Data Disk.
    • Restore to VMware vSphere: Restores the image as a new virtual machine in vSphere.

For AWS and Azure destinations, a storage account must already be added in Management Console

  1. Select the Reorganize partitions using advanced dialog option.

  1. Configure virtual partitions in the dialog window.

  1. Finish the restore plan.
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