Storage Foundation for Windows Clients
BMR can restore a Storage Foundation for Windows (SFW) Clients both using Legacy Restore method as well as Fast Restore (non-SFW volumes recovery) method. However currently FAST Restore method can ONLY support restoring non-SFW disks ONLY which are not managed by SFW volume manager. The backup configurations required to restore using Legacy Restore method is different than the one used for Fast Restore method.
Bare Metal recovery using Fast Restore:
When using BMR to backup and restore (SFW) using Fast Restore method, you need to perform few additional steps before attempting a backup.
Note:
It is advisable to keep the system disk under the control of Windows Disk Manager and not SFW. This way you can recover the system using BMR fast recovery method and then later get back the SFW volumes.
To perform bare metal recovery using fast restore,
- Configure a DWORD - registry key "BMR_USE_WINDOWS_VOL_MGR" under
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Veritas\NetBackup\BareMetalwith value set as "1" on the SFW client which is to be protected. This is important step and hence validate that the key is set correctly. - Perform the BMR backup of the SFW client.
- Verify that all disks except the system disk are marked as "Restricted" by BMR in the "current" configuration. If you see that the SFW disks are not marked as 'Restricted' then there may be a problem in setting the registry key. BMR does not restore the disks that are marked restricted and they are maintained as it is.
Note:
BMR does not restore the disks that are marked as 'Restricted" and these disks are maintained as is.