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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Bare Metal Restore™ Administrator's Guide
  3. Introducing Bare Metal Restore
  4. UEFI-GPT support in BMR
Veritas NetBackup™ Bare Metal Restore™ Administrator's Guide

UEFI-GPT support in BMR

Table: Proliferation support for UEFI-GPT in BMR provides information about UEFI-GPT support in BMR for Linux and Windows operating system.

Table: Proliferation support for UEFI-GPT in BMR

Operating System

Proliferation Support

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x, 8.x

NetBackup BMR supports the GUID Partition Table (GPT) disk types and the Dissimilar Disk Restore (DDR) functionality similar to the BIOS clients. The supported BMR features on UEFI machine are Self-restore, DDR, and Dissimilar System Recovery (DSR). Dissimilar System Restore support is extended to UEFI clients. For details refer the tech note.

https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.000034868

The newly created Shared Resource Tree can be used to boot BIOS as well as UEFI machines. In addition the VFAT file system is also supported.

Note:

The support for Linux multi-devices is limited and BMR may not restore the exactly some configurations.

Windows

  • For UEFI, and Legacy BIOS booted machines, NetBackup BMR supports self-restore, Dissimilar Disk Restore (DDR), and Dissimilar System Recovery (DSR) for both Legacy MBR and GUID Partition Table (GPT) disk types.

  • For UEFI systems and BIOS system having GPT disks, NetBackup BMR doesn't support Direct virtual machine (VM) creation (Physical to Virtual).

The newly created Shared Resource Tree can be used to boot BIOS as well as UEFI machines. In addition the FAT32 file system is also supported.

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