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
- 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
Backing up BMR clients
To perform client disaster recovery using BMR, the NetBackup backup policy needs to be configured for BMR. At least a full backup is required with BMR-enabled backup policy for the client to be recovered.
Each protected client must be backed up regularly by at least one policy that performs a full backup. The policy also can perform cumulative incremental or differential incremental backups, but a full backup must occur.
The backup saves the files of the computer on a storage device that NetBackup media server manages. The backup saves the configuration of the client on the BMR master server.
After a client is backed up by a policy that is configured for BMR protection, the client is registered with BMR as a protected client. It then appears in the Bare Metal Restore Clients view in the NetBackup Administration Console.