Dell DL1300 Appliance User's Guide

AppAssure provides the ability to perform a Bare Metal Restore (BMR) for your Windows machines whether the hardware is similar or dissimilar. This process encompasses creating a boot CD image, burning the image to disk, booting up the target server from disk, connecting to the recovery console instance, mapping volumes, initiating the recovery, and then monitoring the process. After the bare metal restore is complete, you can continue with the task of loading the operating system and the software applications on the restored server, followed by your unique settings and configuration.

Other circumstances in which you may choose to perform a bare metal restore include hardware upgrade or server replacement.

BMR functionality is also supported for your protected Linux machines using the command-line aamount utility. For more information, see Launching A Bare Metal Restore For A Linux Machine .