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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Bare Metal Restore™ Administrator's Guide
  3. Restoring clients
  4. About restoring BMR clients using media boot
Veritas NetBackup™ Bare Metal Restore™ Administrator's Guide

About restoring BMR clients using media boot

Note:

Review the secure communication compatibility support matrix for BMR table to know more about the supported master, boot server, client, and SRT versions for Linux, Windows, Solaris, AIX, and HP-UX environments. See Secure communication compatibility matrices for BMR for NetBackup 8.1.1 and later releases.

Use these procedures for a standard restore (also known as a self restore, which is a restore to the same system and disks).

To restore using media boot requires that you first create bootable media.

Refer sections on creating boot media.

Before you do a standard restore, you must run the prepare to restore operation using the current, saved configuration.

See Preparing a client for restore.

The procedure for restoring the client system depends on the manufacturer and mode.

See Restoring an AIX client with media boot.

See Restoring a HP-UX client with media boot.

See Restoring a Linux client with media boot.

See Restoring a Solaris client with media boot.

See Restoring a Windows client with media boot.

Other information about restoring clients is available.

See About external procedures.

See About performing complete backups.

See About performing a full backup after a restore.

See Ensuring successful backups.

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