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can’t seem to win today. Now restoring a VM from bare metal into vmware I get the “getting devices ready” , reboots and same results. Over and over. Did I miss something?

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What do the Veeam process logs say?

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how do I access the logs? I created a new VM and am trying to restore the C volume. I am restoring the volume as a whole

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Not the whole computer? I guess I must not be understanding you.

I’m having an off day.

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I built a vm in vmware. I am trying to restore the entire C volume from the crashed machine from backup using bare metal restore

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Was the crashed machine a physical one? What did you use to back it up initially? Veeam Free?

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veeam free. I have the data bare metal not working

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Let me tag someone. Personally most of my restores are VMs and while I do use Veeam Free too, I have not had occasion to restore from bare metal to a VM or let alone the same physical box.

@andrew-veeam

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Jason, Denis is right, that’s a very unusual way to perform P2V via Veeam Agent and its bare metal recovery disk. I suspect the issue being somewhere with the missing drivers for the virtual hardware as I doubt you were preparing the original backup for the future recovery as a VM. I’d suggest now to try both “startup repair” and “load driver” Using Veeam Agent and Microsoft Windows Tools - Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows Guide options (especially if you’re restoring relatively old OS) or just create a VM from the scratch and restore disks from the backup separately ( Restoring Volumes - Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows Guide )

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I ended up rebuilding from scratch. What is the best way to do image backups for vmware then?

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