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.
To take advantage of Bare Metal Recovery, use Block Backup for your nodes. Then, if the need to perform a Bare Metal Recovery operation arises, boot up a “bare machine” by using the disc or ISO image file provided with Catalogic DPX, provide minimal information about the backup job and the storage system, and select the backup instance to recover.
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.
In order to perform Bare Metal Recovery, you need:
a CD or flash drive with an .iso file necessary to initiate restore,
and empty machine with hardware identical to the one you are planning to restore,
an empty disc 10% larger than the one being restored.
Bare Metal Recovery is initiated from BIOS or UEFI.
Switch your machine on, initiate BIOS/UEFI and select CDROM or USB as the first boot device.
DPX Bare Metal Recovery wizard will start.
Now you must specify the source of the restore. Fill in the IP address of your storage (vStor, OSS, or NetApp), your username and password to it.
Then, after connecting to the storage, select volume, node, and job from the dropdowns.
Finally, select the snapshot to restore and click Next.
You will see the summary of your restore operation. Click Next.
A popup warning will appear informing that the overwrite operation is irreversible. Click Yes.
On the next, final screen you will see information about the backup being restored, its source and target. Click Restore to initiate the restore operation. You can see the progress in the Restore Status tab.
Once ready, a pop-up will appear informing you that the restore has been successfully completed. Click OK to reboot.