BackupExec SDR to HyperV
Hello
We look after many SME's and need to provide a quick responce to a Disaster Recovery situation.
We do regular SDR Backups of the clients 2011 SBS Servers using BE 2012.
We periodically take the SDR Hard Drive offsite to test a restore however i would like to know if it's possible to convert the BackupExec Media to a VHD or VHDX directly rather than using the BackupExec Software to convert it to a VM on the HyperV Server. I was looking for an option to what we get in the Backup Exec Software on the SDR Disc however this dosen't seem to be available.
I hope i've explained this poperly
Many Thanks
Francis
Yes and no.
No. You cannot convert the backup set to a VHD because even if you can do so, the VM cannot be boot up because of incompatible drivers
Yes. If you have a media server and a Hyper-V host, you can use the B2V feature of BE 2012 to convert the backup to a VM. You can do this without using SDR. The B2V involves restoring the backup set to the Hyper-V host. This is a lot easier than using SDR.