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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Bare Metal Restore™ Administrator's Guide
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Veritas NetBackup™ Bare Metal Restore™ Administrator's Guide

BMR disk processing with prepare-to-restore options

Table: BMR disk actions describes how BMR processes disks, depending on the two prepare-to-restore options.

Note the following about the restore options column:

  • System only is the Restore system disks/volumes only option for prepare to restore.

  • Import is the Make available volumes on non-restored disks after the system is restored option for prepare to restore.

Table: BMR disk actions

Restore options

System Disks

Nonsystem disks

Restricted=false

Nonsystem disks

Restricted=true

System only = true and import = true

Restore

Import

No action

System only = true and import = false

Restore

No action

No action

System only = false and import = true

Restore

Restore if possible otherwise import

No action

System only = false and import = false

Restore

Restore

No action

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