Generic BMR Restore
NetBackup Bare Metal Restore (BMR) provides a feature to restore a Windows client without performing Prepare to Restore (PTR) operation. This feature is referred to as .
To restore a Windows client using Generic BMR
- Boot the client using Windows SRT. After you boot the client using Windows SRT, on the screen that appears, as shown in the figure, press any key to proceed to the Veritas System Recovery Disk wizard.
- On the Veritas System Recovery Disk wizard, click Generic BMR Restore
- On the screen that appears, as shown in the figure, enter the following network details:
IP Address
Netmask
Gateway
NetBackup master server IP address
NetBackup master server name
Click Contact Master Server, after you have entered all the details mentioned in Step3.
- For a client with NetBackup 8.1.1 and later installed, you must validate and confirm if the selected master server with which the client intends to establish a communication is a trusted server.
Click Yes, if you trust the master server.
For more information on how to validate the Certificate Authority (CA) hash certificate, refer to the Finding and communicating the fingerprint of a CA certificate section in the NetBackup Security and Encryption Guide
- For a client with NetBackup 8.1.1 and later installed, you must enter the Reissue token and then click OK.
Use the Certificate Management node on NetBackup Administration console to generate the Reissue token.
For more information on how to generate a reissue type of authorization token, refer to the Creating a reissue token section in the NetBackup Administration Console Help or the NetBackup Security and Encryption Guide.
- From the client configuration drop-down list, select the client configuration that you want to restore and click Restore Client.
Note:
Starting NetBackup 8.1.1 release, client configuration drop-down displays the list of configurations of only that particular client with which the provided reissue token is associated.
Select the Show all configurations check box if you want to view a list of all the configurations that are associated with the client for which you have provided reissue token.
- The restore begins with no further user intervention required.
- For a client with NetBackup 8.1.1 and later installed, after a successful completion of restore, the host ID-based certificate is copied on the client that is restored.
