1. A system for recovering a virtual machine, comprising: a restore operator console configured to receive a selection of an image level backup of the virtual machine and a data object of the image level backup; a data conversion engine configured to determine a data portion of the image level backup containing the data object and to perform content translation on the image level backup to extract contents of the data portion; a storage configured to receive the extracted contents of the data portion from the data conversion engine and to represent the extracted contents to a hypervisor; and one or more processors configured to execute at least one of the restore operator console, the data conversion engine, and the storage.