NetBackup Bare Metal Restore functionality not supported for restoring NetBackup 8.1 clients
NetBackup Bare Metal Restore (BMR) functionality is not supported for restoring the clients that have NetBackup 8.1 installed. You can, however, still use Bare Metal Restore for restoring the clients that have NetBackup version 8.0 and earlier installed. While restoring 8.0 and earlier clients, Veritas recommends that you use Shared Resource Tree (SRT) having 8.0 and earlier client version.