Acronis Backup for VMware 9 - User Guide - Manual (Page 55)

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9 Recovery
9.1 Restoring a Backup of Virtual Machines
Select the Recovery -> Entire VM in the Actions tab of the main menu to restore one or several
backed up virtual machines. The New Restore Task wizard opens in the main workspace area and
asks you to provide the required information and configure the necessary settings for the new
restore task. The wizard consists of the three consecutive steps which appear in the same area:
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Select VM(s) to restore.
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Where to restore.
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How to restore.
These three steps of the restore wizard and their possible options are described below.
9.1.1 Select VM(s) to restore
In the first step of the restore backup task wizard, you should define the backup location and select
the virtual machines to be recovered. The chosen locations are scanned for the archives presence
and contents, which is necessary to define the recovery point(s) for backup restore.
New Restore Task wizard, Step 1 “Select VM(s) to restore”
Note that if you select an archive which contains an image of a physical machine (when you need to
perform “physical to virtual” or P2V migration), there will be no other options provided at this step,
because such archives have a single recovery point inside.