MABS backup/restore of on-premise Hyper-V guest VM -- unable to restore vm from disk

Greg Zartman 26

I have MABS setup as a hyper-v guest VM on my Hyper-V server. I setup a test vm, which is a windows server 2016 standard install. I am able to backup and restore this VM to Azure with no problem. However, when I try to restore for the local disk backup on the MABS server the only option for restoring is to restore the VHD for the test VM, but not the entire VM.

How can I backup/restore the entire VM from the local disk backup in MABS.

Thanks

SadiqhAhmed-MSFT 37,536 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2021-03-05T16:18:07.477+00:00

@GregZartman-2833Thank you for your post and I apologize for the delayed response!

The document mentions all the possible restore scenarios - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/backup/back-up-hyper-v-virtual-machines-mabs#recover-backed-up-virtual-machines

You can perform network location restore to restore an entire VM. It will restore everything as files / like VHD etc then you can create VM from the VHD.

Since "Recover as virtual machine to any host" option isn't showing up for you, we may need to investigate to find the cause. To do so, you need to contact Azure technical support team by raising a support request - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-portal/supportability/how-to-create-azure-support-request

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Islam Gomaa 0 Reputation points

2023-04-04T21:39:20.28+00:00

I have the same issue , I am using MABS V3 Ur2 , any idea what is wrong , or what to check
SadiqhAhmed-MSFT 37,536 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2023-04-05T09:52:11.3666667+00:00

@Islam Gomaa If you've already followed the suggestions posted. You may contact Azure technical support team for further assistance.