Symptoms

BMR restore gets failure with error 'Firmware mismatch between source (UEFI) and target (BIOS) machines:

Cause

Source (backup) contains UEFI boot firmware, however target (current machine) configured with BIOS boot firmware.Avamar detects this mismatch between source and target boot firmware, so the PreRestore failed with error code : 0x8007065e, the BMR restore job is terminated.

Resolution

As a workaround, shutdown the target VM, and change the boot firmware of that VM from BIOS to EFI, power on, and try the BMR restore:

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