Cross-Platform Recovery

With the Cross-Platform Recovery feature, you can seamlessly use VM and physical machine backup data across multiple platforms and virtualized environments. This approach provides flexibility and resilience while supporting a wide range of recovery and migration scenarios. Cross-Platform Recovery also offers the following advantages:

Data Migration

Whether a disaster makes a hypervisor or physical server unavailable, or you decide to consolidate your infrastructure onto a single virtualization platform, Cross-Platform Recovery can assist with the transition. You can export VM or physical machine backup data in the required format and recover it on a different platform without encountering compatibility issues.

Long-Term Data Archiving

Business requirements or regulatory obligations may require you to store backups for extended periods. With NAKIVO Backup & Replication, you can export and store backup data offsite for as long as necessary. Even if your virtualization platform changes over time, you can still recover data from older backups in the new environment.

Recoverability Testing

Having a backup does not automatically guarantee successful recovery. Cross-Platform Recovery allows you to test different recovery scenarios across multiple environments, helping you verify that backups can be recovered when needed. By validating recoverability in advance, you can better ensure business continuity and reduce the risk of unexpected issues during an actual disaster.

You  can export VM/physical machine data from any backup into the format of your choice in four simple steps:

  1. Select a backup (VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, Proxmox VE, or physical server).

    Note

    Backup Export is not supported for .raw and .qcow2 formats of Proxmox.

  2. Choose one or multiple virtual disks that you would like to export.

  3. Specify the target location and export format (VMDK, VHD, or VHDX).

  4. Click a button and have the data of each selected disk exported into a separate file.

Once exported, the files can be used for recovery or long-term storage. Cross-Platform Recovery allows for unrestricted data protection across different hypervisors, physical machines and cloud platforms. Whether one of your hypervisors or physical machines is down or you need to migrate data from one platform to another, Cross-Platform Recovery gives you the necessary tools for seamless cross-platform data protection and recovery.