User`s guide

Supports Leading Edge Technology

Businesses today are moving to leverage the latest technologies, including dual-core, 64-

bit processors and 64-bit operating systems. With SonicWALL Bare Metal Recovery, you

can protect these new machines, as well as legacy servers, running a single application

with a common interface.

Leverages Existing Technology Investments

The product can leverage your current storage infrastructure by supporting a variety of

storage media, so you can avoid costly hardware purchases to implement the solution.

The product supports key storage technologies such as: Direct Attached Storage (DAS),

Network Attached Storage (NAS), Storage Area Networks (SAN), Redundant Arrays of

Independent Disks (RAID), USB and IEEE-1394 (FireWire) compliant storage devices,

CDs, DVDs, removable drives (Floppy, Zip, etc.) and shared storage. Moreover, the

product ensures that you maximize the space on these resources with four levels of

compression.

Disk cloning and new disk deployment

SonicWALL Bare Metal Recovery can be used to clone an image onto multiple servers. For

example, let’s say a company purchased several servers and needs similar environments

on each of them. Traditionally, the IT manager would install the operating system and

programs on every server. With SonicWALL Bare Metal Recovery, the IT manager would

configure a single server, then create a disk image of the system. That image can then be

duplicated onto multiple servers.

If you need to upgrade the server hard disk drive, SonicWALL Bare Metal Recovery

simplifies the task to few mouse clicks creating the exact copy of your old disk to a new

one and adjusting partitions size to fit a new hard disk.

Volumes conversion

SonicWALL Bare Metal Recovery can back up and recover dynamic volumes.

Dynamic volume as is can be recovered over the same volume or unallocated space of a

dynamic group. SonicWALL Bare Metal Recovery has necessary tools for any-to-any disks

conversion in terms of basic disks and dynamic volumes of any type (simple, spanned,

striped, mirrored or RAID 5). The tools are available in bootable program version as well.

Having booted the SonicWALL environment, you can easily prepare the desired dynamic

group on bare metal or a computer with non-Windows operating system.

1.2 SonicWALL Bare Metal Recovery components

SonicWALL Bare Metal Recovery Server Edition is a locally controlled server

management tool. The local version supports, besides backup and recovery operations,

exploring archives, mounting images as virtual drives, cloning hard disks data and

formatting partitions on new hard disks and command-line mode.

SonicWALL Bare Metal Recovery Universal Enterprise Server is a wide version of

SonicWALL Bare Metal Recovery. It can be installed in two ways: either by entering its’

license key during the installation or by using separately sold Upgrade Install Utility setup

file to SonicWALL Bare Metal Recovery Server Edition.

The following functions exist only in the enterprise edition:

1. pre-installed Acronis Universal Restore

2. incremental backups