We were recently asked if you could recover a Windows Image Backup of a 2008 R2 server taken with BackupAssist directly to a newly created Hyper-V Virtual Machine. This was something that should work in theory as part of the 'recover to dissimilar hardware' function of Windows image backups, but there are a few considerations that have to be met for a clean restore process.
So here is the best way we have found to achieve this.
We get a lot of requests regarding the remote support tool we choose to use when taking control of customer PC's. For many years we've been using one such tool that we refer to as 'rs.exe'.
This is actually a free customised tool based on the 'Ultra VNC Single Click' package http://www.uvnc.com/docs/uvnc-sc.html.
The latest version of BackupAssist 6.2.5 was released today so be sure to to download and upgrade your copy. For a full list of fixes and changes please consult the...
Currently you need two components to achieve this, there's "cwRsync" which enables the server to talk to BackupAssist and there's the optional "CopSSH" which allows you to do so securely over SSH. The developer (Cortex Labs) currently package these for you so that one installation follows the next as part of the same installation wizard.
