Specifications

8. If the volumes you want to restore contain SQL or Microsoft Exchange databases, on the Dismount

Databases page, you are prompted to dismount them. Optionally, if you want to remount these

databases after the restore is complete, select Automatically remount all databases after the

recovery point is restored. Click Finish.

9. Click OK to confirm the status message that the restore process has started.

10. To monitor the progress of your restore action, on the Core Console, click Events.

Bare Metal Recovery

AppAssure provides the ability to perform a bare metal restore (BMR) for your Windows or Linux

machines. BMR is a process that restores the full software configuration for a specific system. It uses the

term “bare metal” because the restore operation recovers not only the data from the server, but also

reformats the hard drive and reinstalls the operating system and all software applications. To perform a

BMR, you specify a recovery point from a protected machine, and roll back to the designated physical or

virtual machine. Other circumstances in which you may choose to perform a bare metal restore include

hardware upgrade or server replacement.

Performing a BMR is possible for physical or virtual machines. As an added benefit, AppAssure allows you

to perform a BMR whether the hardware is similar or dissimilar.

Prerequisites For Performing A Bare Metal Restore For A Windows Machine

Before you can begin the process of performing a bare metal restore for a Windows machine, you must

ensure that the following conditions and criteria exist:

• Backups of the machine you want to restore — You must have a functioning AppAssure Core

containing recovery points of the protected server you want to restore

• Hardware to restore (new or old, similar or dissimilar) — The target machine must meet the

installation requirements for an agent.

• Image media and software — You must have a blank CD or DVD and disk burning software, or

software to create an ISO image. If managing machines remotely using virtual network computing

software such as UltraVNC, then you must have VNC Viewer

• Compatible storage drivers and network adapter drivers — If restoring to dissimilar hardware, then

you must have Windows 7 PE (32-bit) compatible storage drivers and network adapter drivers for the

target machine, including RAID, AHCI, and chipset drivers for the target operating system, as

appropriate.

• Storage space and partitions, as appropriate — Ensure that there is enough space on the hard drive

to create destination partitions on the target machine to contain the source volumes. Any destination

partition should be at least as large as the original source partition.

• Compatible partitions — Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 operating systems that are booted

from FAT32 EFI partitions are available for protection or recovery, as well as are Resilient File System

(ReFS) volumes. UEFI partitions are treated as simple FAT32 volumes. Incremental transfers are fully

supported and protected. AppAssure 5 provides support of UEFI systems for BMR including automatic

partitioning GPT disks.

Roadmap For Performing A Bare Metal Restore For A Windows Machine

NOTE: Following are basic steps used in the Bare Metal Restore (BMR) process. For detailed

information on each step, see the Dell DL1000 Appliance User’s Guide.