Bare Metal Recovery (BMR) Backup

General remarks

Bare Metal Recovery in Catalogic DPX is a disk-based disaster recovery solution that enables administrators to restore an entire system environment for an individual computer. Using this feature, a full recovery includes the operating system, point-in-time backed-up data, and Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL Server, and Oracle Database applications if applicable. You can use Bare Metal Recovery for disaster recovery and replicating the environment, applications, node data, and so on.

The purpose of Bare Metal Recovery is to restore an entire system environment for an individual computer. A full recovery using Bare Metal Recovery includes the operating system, point-in-time backed-up data, and Oracle, SharePoint, SQL Server, and Exchange data if applicable. If the computer being recovered is a master server, Bare Metal Recovery additionally restores the application.

Procedure

In order to be able to perform a Bare Metal Recovery, you need to create a particular type of block backup, by defining a block backup job. See the procedures below.

Web interface

Perform all the steps as in Creating a Block Backup Job.

In step 4 (source selection), select the BMR volume.

Desktop interface

Perform all the steps as in Creating a Block Backup Job, going through all the steps of the Block Backup Wizard.

In step 6 (Source Options), select the BMR volume.