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Vin1688's avatar
Vin1688
Level 3
3 months ago

BMR restore.

Does BMR restore applies to physical servers only? Or applies to VM as well? Is it a BMR boot server needs to be setup prior to perform any BMR restore?
Windows Server 2012 R2
  • kiyan's avatar
    kiyan
    3 months ago

    basically if we use BMR for any asset, it will save the configuration (devices, drivers, etc) in the BMR database.
    you should be able to find the details under the BMR management>Hosts>bare metal restore clients

Michal_Mikulik1's avatar
Michal_Mikulik1
Moderator
3 months ago

Hello,

two corrections to the previous post:

BMR can be used for both physical and virtual servers. There could be virtual servers which must be backed up as physical servers for reasons (cluster nodes, VMs sensitive to snapshots creation/deletion etc). Also a VM restore can be used as a "cheap" BMR training option.

BMR Boot Server must be available only in the case of Network Based boot. In the case of CD Based boot, Boot server is not needed (you can even restore BMR Boot Server itself by this procedure).

Regards

Michal

  • Vin1688's avatar
    Vin1688
    Level 3
    3 months ago
    Ok. Having VM backing up using file level backup.
    If were to check on 'BMR restore' checkbox, some BMR components will be stored somewhere in the event needed for rebuild and restore of VM's?
    • kiyan's avatar
      kiyan
      Level 5
      3 months ago

      basically if we use BMR for any asset, it will save the configuration (devices, drivers, etc) in the BMR database.
      you should be able to find the details under the BMR management>Hosts>bare metal restore clients

      • Vin1688's avatar
        Vin1688
        Level 3
        2 months ago
        Ok. I suppose the config of those clients are store in the Master Server itself.

        What if the master server is dead or corrupted and able to restore it using BMR approach?
  • kiyan's avatar
    kiyan
    Level 5
    3 months ago

    Hello Michal,

    Thank you for correcting me.I never used BMR for any of our customer for Virtual machines. Would you explain a bit more about this option if you have applied it any specific situation?

    to create a BMR boot CD, we will initially need a boot server, or at least that's how I create a boot server.