Using HIR

The Hardware Independent Restore (HIR) utility restores system images to different hardware or virtual environments. Use HIR to restore:

• To a different physical computer (P2P)
• From a physical computer to a virtual environment (P2V)
• From a virtual environment to a physical computer (V2P)
• From one virtual environment to another (V2V)

Note: HIR requires an activated copy of ShadowProtect on the source system volume in order to restore that volume to different hardware or to a virtual environment. ShadowProtect IT Edition does not have this limitation.

You can load the HIR utility from the:

• HIR restore wizard
• HIR standalone utility
• HIR advanced options

Note: The ShadowProtect Restore log may not provided all error messages if there are problems patching boot code or performing HIR. These conditions are extremely rare but may include problems writing data to disk. The result is a restore log with no errors but the restored system fails to boot. The user can run the ShadowProtect Boot Configuration Utility (BCU) to gather more information about the underlying problem.