Veritas NetBackup™ Bare Metal Restore™ Administrator's Guide
- Introducing Bare Metal Restore
- Configuring BMR
- Protecting clients
- Setting up restore environments
- Shared resource trees
- Pre-requisites for Shared Resource Tree
- Creating a shared resource tree
- Managing shared resource trees
- Adding software to a shared resource tree
- Importing a shared resource tree
- Copying a shared resource tree
- Deleting a shared resource tree
- Managing boot media
- Restoring clients
- BMR disk recovery behavior
- About restoring BMR clients using network boot
- About restoring BMR clients using media boot
- About restoring to a specific point in time
- About restoring to dissimilar disks
- Restoring to a dissimilar system
- About restoring NetBackup media servers
- About external procedures
- About external procedure environment variables
- About SAN (storage area network) support
- About multiple network interface support
- Managing Windows drivers packages
- Managing clients and configurations
- Client configuration properties
- Managing BMR boot servers
- Troubleshooting
- Troubleshooting issues regarding creation of virtual machine from client backup
- A restore task may remain in a finalized state in the disaster recovery domain even after the client restores successfully
- Creating virtual machine from client backup
- Virtual machine creation from backup
- Monitoring Bare Metal Restore Activity
- Appendix A. NetBackup BMR related appendices
- Network services configurations on BMR boot Server
- BMR client recovery to other NetBackup Domain using Auto Image Replication
Create an SRT
BMR SRT provides the resources that are needed to boot the client system and begin the restore process. BMR Windows SRT uses Windows Pre-Installation Environment (WinPE) as base recovery environment. In order to create this base WinPE recovery environment, you need to install Microsoft Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK) version 8.1 on the host. Microsoft ADK installation is essential while creating new SRT for the first time. There are different options available to setup ADK on BMR boot server host as explained below:
BMR Shared Resource Tree administration wizard can install it using:
Automatic download of ADK and installation
Use remotely downloaded ADK installer for creating the SRT
Manual ADK setup using FULL ADK 8.1 installable ADK 8.1 is downloadable (ADKsetup.exe) and can be installed from Microsoft's website http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=293840 directly or an offline installation can be done by downloading entire ADK installer package from the Microsoft's Website.
The approximate size of the ADK setup program is 3GB.
To create an SRT for Windows
- From the Start menu on the Windows BMR boot server that is to host the SRT, select Programs > Veritas NetBackup > Bare Metal Restore Boot Server Assistant.
The Bare Metal Restore Boot Server Assistant appears.
- Click Shared Resource Tree Administration Wizard.
The Shared Resource Tree Administration Wizard appears.
Note:
You can use an SRT containing the NetBackup client of 8.0 version to restore the back-level NetBackup clients.
- Select the type of Shared resource tree as Fast Restore SRT.
Note:
Creating legacy type SRT is not supported on boot server 7.6.1.
- Follow the prompts to create a shared resource tree. You must provide the following information:
Architecture
Select the architecture from drop-down options.
Name
The name of the SRT is also used for the directory that contains it. Only alphanumeric characters and the underscore (_) character are allowed.
Description
Enter the description of the SRT. For example: Windows 2008 SRT
Target Directory
Enter the path or browse the location of target of SRT.