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
New Proliferation support in NetBackup 8.0 Bare Metal Restore
This section provides brief descriptions of the proliferation support added in Bare Metal Restore 8.0.
Table: New proliferation support in NetBackup 8.0Bare Metal Restore
Operating System | Proliferation Support |
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Suse Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1 | BMR client and BMR boot server |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x UEFI-GPT boot | BMR client and BMR boot server |
BMR UEFI-GPT support | NetBackup BMR supports the GUID Partition Table (GPT) disk types and the Dissimilar Disk Restore (DDR) functionality similar to the BIOS clients. The supported BMR features on UEFI machine are Self-restore, DDR, and Dissimilar System Recovery (DSR). Dissimilar System Restore support is extended to UEFI clients. For details refer the technote. https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.000034868 The newly created Shared Resource Tree can be used to boot BIOS as well as UEFI machines. In addition the VFAT file system is also supported. Note: The support for Linux multi-devices is limited and BMR may not restore the exactly some configurations. |