As a system administrator, you are responsible for ensuring that data is restored in case the production (master) server fails. With Bare Metal Restore you can build a similar master server by restoring the operating system, applications, and data from an existing recovery point. A recovery point is a point-in-time copy of the replica server. To restore the operating system and applications from a recovery point, you need a bare metal machine. A bare metal machine refers to a computer without any software.
Note: You can format the failed master server to make it a bare metal machine.
A bare metal recovery provides the following benefits:
The following diagram illustrates how to perform a bare metal restore from a recovery point.
Perform the following tasks to restore applications and data to a bare metal machine from a restore point:
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