Dell NetWorker 19.9 Administration Guide

Performing a Windows BMR to a physical computer

1. Start the target host from the Windows BMR image.
   The NetWorker Windows BMR wizard appears.
2. On the Welcome screen:
   1. Populate the The current date and The current time fields with correct date and time as per the time zone value in the time zone field.
      For instance, if the correct date and time is January 17, 2022 1:00:00 AM as per the (UTC-8) Pacific Time (US & Canada) time zone in the wizard, set the same in the date and time fields in the wizard.
   2. Once date and time fields are verified, click Next.
3. If a DNS server is not available on the network, perform the following:
   1. Exit the NetWorker Windows BMR wizard but do not restart the host.
      The WinPE command line appears.
   2. Edit the hosts file, for example, X:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts.
   3. Add the IP address and hostname for the NetWorker server and the NetWorker storage node.
   4. Restart the wizard from the X:\Program Files\EMC Networker\nsr\wizard directory.
      For example: X:\Program Files\EMC Networker\nsr\wizard> javaw -jar WinPEWizard.jar
   5. When the wizard appears, click Next.
4. On the Select Network Interface screen:
   1. Select the NIC driver.
   2. Click Next.

   If the driver list does not contain the driver for the NIC on the target host, select Load Driver, and then browse to the location that contains the required driver.

   NOTE:The selected driver cannot require a restart operation because the recovery process loads the WinPE environment in memory only and changes are not persistent after a restart operation.
5. On the Configure Hostname and Network screen, complete the fields:
   1. In the Hostname field, type the hostname of the source host.
   2. In the DNS domain field, type the name of the domain in which the host resides.
      If the host resides in a workgroup instead of a domain, you can leave this field blank.
   3. In the Configure desired IP Settings field, choose the tab for the Network Protocol deployed on the network, either IPv4 or IPv6.
   4. In the TCP/IP Address settings section, select either Obtain an IP address automatically (DHCP) or Use the following IP Address.
   5. If you choose Use the following IP Address, type the IP address in the IP address field.

      If applicable, type the subnet mask in the Subnet mask field, and then type the default gateway in Default gateway field.

   6. In the DNS Server section, select either Obtain DNS server address automatically or Use the following DNS server address:
      • If you choose Use the following DNS server address, type the IP address of the DNS server in the Preferred DNS server field.
      • If applicable, type an alternate DNS server address in the Alternate DNS server field.

      NOTE:If you added the NetWorker server hostname and IP address to the X:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts file, you can ignore the DNS Server fields.
   7. Click Next.
      The Available Disks screen displays all detected local disks.
6. If the Windows BMR wizard fails to detect a disk, perform the following steps:
   1. Select Load Driver.
   2. Browse to the location that contains the disk driver, and then load the required disk driver.
   3. To update the list of detected disks, select Refresh.
   4. Click Next.
7. On the Select NetWorker Server screen, complete the fields:
   1. In the Server field, specify the NetWorker server that performed the backup:
      • Select the NetWorker server from the server list. To update the list of NetWorker servers, click Search. The Search function locates only those NetWorker servers on the local subnet.
      • Type the fully qualified domain name (FQDN).
   2. In the Client field, ensure that the client name matches the Client resource name on the NetWorker server.

      NetWorker automatically populates this field with the values that you specified in the Hostname and DNS Domain fields on the Configure Hostname and Network screen of the wizard. For example, if the client resource on the NetWorker server uses an FQDN, then specify the FQDN of the client in the Client field.

      To recover the backup to a host that differs from the source host, modify the Client field to specify the target hostname.

      If you specify a different client, the recovered host uses the same hostname and IP settings as the source computer. If the source computer is running on the same network, using the same hostname and IP settings can cause hostname and IP address conflicts.

   3. Click Next.
8. On the Select Bare Metal Recovery Backup screen, select the system backup that you want to recover, and then click Next.

   System backups appear in descending order from most recent to oldest.

9. Review the Save Sets to Restore screen, and then click Next.

   The recovery process reformats critical volumes. The recovery process reformats non-critical volumes only if the disk signature on the target disk differs from the original disk.

   For example, to perform a quick format instead of a full format operation if the disk was replaced, select Perform a quick format of disks.

   NOTE:A quick format is much faster than full format but does not verify each sector on the volume.

   The recovery process does not recover non-critical volume data. Recovering file system data provides more information.

10. On the Bare Metal Recovery Summary screen, select Options to display the Non-Default Recover Options screen.
11. On the Non-Default Recover Options screen:
    1. In the Additional Options field, type any required non-default options with their corresponding values.
       Non-default options are primarily used for troubleshooting purposes.
    2. To save and close the Non-Default Recover Options screen, and then return to the Bare Metal Recovery Summary screen, click OK.
    3. To begin the recovery process, click Restore.
12. On the Confirmation screen, select the I confirm that I want to format the disks and restore the backup option, and then click OK.
    NOTE:All data is lost on all volumes that the recovery process reformats.

    After the data recovery completes, the wizard writes the recovery log files to volumes in the backup media pool being used. If you do not have a volume available, then the recovery operation appears to be unavailable until media for the media pool becomes available.

    NOTE:You can cancel the log file backup without affecting the recovery operation.
13. After the wizard and log files complete, click either Reboot or Exit:
    • To restart the system when any subsequent application data resources must be performed, click Reboot. If you are recovering an Active Directory domain controller, it is recovered in non-authoritative mode by default.
    • If you must recover a domain controller in authoritative mode, click Exit. The computer returns to the WinPE command prompt. Start into Directory Services Restore Mode (DSRM). See Performing post recovery tasks for active directory services for more information.