About Bare Metal Restore
NetBackup Bare Metal Restore (BMR) is the server recovery option of NetBackup. BMR automates and streamlines the server recovery process, making it unnecessary to reinstall operating systems or configure hardware manually. You can restore servers without extensive training or tedious administration.
BMR restores the operating system, the system configuration, and all the system files and the data files with the following steps:
Run a single command or a single mouse click from the NetBackup master server.
Reboot the client to get client recover automatically.
Separate system backups or reinstallations are not required.
Table: BMR components shows the components of a BMR protection domain.
Table: BMR components
Component | Description |
|---|---|
NetBackup and BMR master server | The NetBackup master server that manages backups and restores of the protected client systems. A NetBackup master server also hosts the BMR master server then manages BMR operations. |
NetBackup media servers | NetBackup media servers control storage devices on which the client files are stored. |
BMR boot servers | Boot servers provide the environment that is required to rebuild a protected client, including system recovery and critical resources such as shared resource trees (SRTs). Shared resource trees contain the software that is used to rebuild the protected system so that NetBackup can restore the original files. The software includes the operating system software and the NetBackup client software. |
Clients | Clients are the systems backed up by NetBackup and protected by BMR. A client may also be a server for other applications or data, a NetBackup media server, or a BMR boot server. |
Depending on your environment, the server components can be located on the same computer, on separate computers, or on a combination of computers.
