When creating the windows server bare metal backup with wsb you need to select the item bare metal recovery.
Windows server 2012 backup restore bare metal.
Create a bare metal backup of windows server 2008 r2 2012 r2 2016 or 2019.
In the next screen verify settings and click finish to begin the restore.
While performing windows server 2012 bare metal recovery you don t need to worry about windows installation media since msp360 backup is able to create a bootable usb capable of performing the bare metal restore.
If you want to restore windows.
If you want to be able to convert to more kinds of virtual machines like vmware virtualbox you can also use windows server backup to restore to virtual machine.
Windows server backup can be used within a virtual machine environment in the same manner that it is used on a physical server to provide backup and recovery services.
Image based backup allows you to restore normal computer operations after disasters of any kind so it is important to implement this backup type.
Windows small business server sbs screenshots are located in the technet blog entry how to perform a bare metal restore on small business server 2008.
If you have followed my previous tutorial how to backup your windows server 2012 r2 essentials server to usb drives you should have kept your backup drives offsite and nothing will be lost.
It can also be used from within a windows azure virtual machine for bare metal backup recovery system state backup recovery file folder backup and recovery.
Run recovery on the dpm server.
In the recovery pane find the machine you want to recovery bare metal recovery.
In choose how to restore the backup select format and repartition disks.
Screenshots of the above procedure can be found in the technet blog entry bare metal restore and there is a youtube video of the process at windows server 2008 backup and restore.
Then you can restore windows server backup to virtual machine.