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How to Backup and Restore with RSI

As a System Administrator, you use CA Server Automation to manage and provision your physical and virtual server environments. You require a reliable mechanism for backup and restore.

Rapid Server Imaging (RSI) provides cross-platform and heterogeneous hardware provisioning, physical and virtual server migration, disaster recovery, and image capture and deployment. Images can be deployed across dissimilar hardware with multiple operating environments provided the hardware belongs to the same processor family.

The following process provides a high-level overview of how to use RSI to backup and restore your managed servers:

1. Verify RSI Prerequisites
   • RSI Prerequisites for Hyper-V
2. Register the RSI Server.
3. Backup servers by Capturing RSI Images and storing them in the RSI depot.
   • (Windows Only) Capture Windows Driver Sets
   • (Optional) Automate RSI Actions. Define a Schedule to capture RSI images on a periodic basis.
4. Restore servers by Deploying RSI Images from the RSI depot.