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.
Windows server 2012 backup restore bare metal.
Run recovery on the dpm server.
Create a bare metal backup of windows server 2008 r2 2012 r2 2016 or 2019.
Then you can restore windows server backup 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.
When creating the windows server bare metal backup with wsb you need to select the item bare metal recovery.
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 supports restoring a bare metal backup of windows server 2008 2012 2016 to any virtual machines.
In the next screen verify settings and click finish to begin the restore.
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.
In choose how to restore the backup select format and repartition disks.
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.
To be able to use windows recovery environment you need a windows server recovery disk or installation disc.
The server has been stolen or because of a fire it is completely lost and you need to restore system and data to a new server.
If you want to restore windows.
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.