Using HIR

The Hardware Independent Restore (HIR) utility lets you restore system images to different hardware, or virtual environments. You must use HIR to restore backup image files in the following scenarios:

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

Note: You must install and activate ShadowProtect on the system volume before making a backup image of the volume in order to restore this image to different hardware using Recovery Environment, Use the ShadowProtect IT Edition instead to perform such restores.