If you're suggesting making the VHD directly from the server itself, that would require a lot of effort. That server is in a rural manufacturing facility that is a 2.5 hour (one-way) drive from my location. They have no other meaningful storage on-site to store a VHD image and they have limited Internet bandwidth (40 Mbit download / 2 Mbit upload) to transfer the VHD when complete. I could ship them an external drive, remotely clone the server, then have them ship the drive to me.
They DO perform a full server cloud backup through a service I can access (it looks like it completed successfully last night), so the best approach might be for me to restore it locally to a VHD in my office. I'm not sure how long that will take to download from the cloud, but I'll start the process.