Restoring dataUsing AppAssure, you can instantly recover or restore data to your physical machines (for Windows orLinux machines) or to virtual machines from stored recovery points for Windows machines. The topics inthis section describe how you can export a specific recovery point for Windows machines to a virtualmachine or to roll back a machine to a previous recovery point.If you have replication set up between two cores (source and target), you can only export data from thetarget core after the initial replication is complete.About exporting protected data from Windows machines to virtual machinesAppAssure supports both a one-time export or continuous export (to support virtual standby) of Windowsbackup information to a virtual machine. Exporting your data to a virtual standby machine provides youwith a high availability copy of the data. If a protected machine goes down, you can boot up the virtualmachine to then perform recovery.The following diagram shows a typical deployment for exporting data to a virtual machine.Figure 4. Exporting data to a virtual machineYou create a virtual standby by continuously exporting protected data from your Windows machine to avirtual machine. When you export to a virtual machine, all of the backup data from a recovery point aswell as the parameters defined for the protection schedule for your machine will be exported.You can perform virtual export of recovery points for your protected Windows or Linux machines toVMware, ESXi, Hyper-V, and Oracle VirtualBox.NOTE: The Appliance tab displays all the virtual machines but only supports the management ofHyper-V and ESXi virtual machines. To manage the other virtual machines use the hypervisormanagement tools.NOTE: The virtual machine to which you are exporting must be a licensed version of ESXi, VMWareWorkstation, or Hyper-V and not the trial or free versions.57
