Bare Metal Recovery (BMR) is the process of restoring a computer system from "bare metal" by reinstalling the operating system and software applications, and then restoring the data and settings.
The most common reasons for performing a bare metal recovery are because your master server fails and you want to recover data and all applications. Bare metal recovery restores not only the data, but also all information related to the operating system, installed applications, configuration settings, necessary drivers, and so on. Arcserve RHA lets you perform bare metal recovery either from a recovery point or from a virtual machine after failover.
Perform this recovery when you want to restore data to a bare metal machine from a specific recovery point. This recovery is just like the usual restore but the data and applications are restored to a bare metal machine.
Perform this recovery when the master server fails and data is restored to the specified virtual machine. In this case, you must perform reverse replication, that is, you replicate the data from the virtual machine to the bare metal machine.
To perform BMR, you would need a startup CD/DVD or USB stick to start the bare metal machine. Arcserve RHA lets you create a startup media (CD/DVD or USB stick) to initialize the new computer system and allow the BMR process to begin.
Note: When there are dynamic disks and volumes in the original master, the volume synchronization is disabled.
|
Copyright © 2014 Arcserve.
All rights reserved.
|
|