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How to transform physical drive backup in virtual Machine?

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Hi!

I already saw that in older versions of Acronis (11.5) it is possible to turn a backup into a virtual machine, but I didn't find these options in the newest version of Acronis.

Is this somehow possible in Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office?

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Hello Felipe, thanks for participating!

Acronis 11.5 and Acronis Cyber Protect Home office are different products. The first is corporate and the second is for consumers.

There is no a direct way to run a backup as VM in Cyber Protect Home office.

Please check this KB for more details about the limitations : https://kb.acronis.com/content/62617

You can try to convert the backup file to .vhd : https://www.acronis.com/en-us/support/documentation/ATI2023/#9239.html#…

Or use the universal restore: https://kb.acronis.com/ati2022/aur

Let us know if that answered to your questions.

Cheers!

Felipe, welcome to these public User Forums.

Whilst there is no direct method of converting a physical drive into a Virtual Machine (VM) there are easy alternative methods that can be used with either ACPHO or earlier ATI versions (2021 or below).

One option is to create a Backup image in Acronis then use the option provided in the Backup operations menu to convert that backup image into a .VHD(X) file which can then be used with such as Windows Hyper-V to create a VM.

The other method that can be used is to do as above, i.e. create an Acronis backup image of the physical OS drive, then boot your VM software (VMware, Hyper-V etc) from Acronis rescue media then restore your backup image into a new VM disk (virtual disk).

See my YouTube video ATI 2021 restore to VM for an example of doing the above.

Felipe,

VHD files are images of operating system disks.  You can create VHD files using Windows Disk Management easily.  Simply open Disk Management, click on your Windows system disk in the upper window to select it, then click the Action menu tab and select Create VHD.  This will produce a wizard from which you can create either VHD or VHDX files and designate a location for them.

This is by far the easiest method to create Virtual Disk image files on Windows systems.