PowerProtect Data Manager 19.16 File System User Guide

Performing bare-metal recovery

Bare-metal recovery (BMR) is used as part of a disaster recovery plan that provides protection when a machine cannot start and you must recover everything. Disaster situations include hardware failure and cyberattacks.

You can use BMR when your host is not available due to a hardware failure or it cannot start. Use BMR for either of the following reasons:

• You want to recover a computer in its entirety after a hardware failure that has been repaired.
• You want to recover data to a new computer after a hardware failure that cannot be repaired. The new computer does not have an operating system, and the OS files must also be recovered from the old computer.

By default, BMR data is System State enabled.

BMR data consists of the following:

• The operating system files and all data except user data on critical volumes
  NOTE:Critical volumes include the boot volume, the system volume, and the volume that hosts system state data, such as Active Directory and application services.
• All system state information

BMR can be used for any of the following operations:

• Physical machine to physical machine (P2P)
• Physical machine to virtual machine (P2V)
• Virtual machine to virtual machine (V2V)

To protect a Windows host entirely, it is recommended that you back up BMR data for critical volumes and separately back up regular assets that contain user data.