System Recovery Media for Bare Metal Recovery

Bare metal recovery (also referred to as bare-metal restore or bare-metal backup) is a data recovery and restoration process where a computer is restored to a new machine using existing image-based backup, typically after a catastrophic failure. Bare metal is a term used in computing, usually in reference to a computer without a base operating system (OS) or applications. In this case, bare metal refers to the new machine on which the restore is occurring.

Bare metal recovery includes the following steps:

1. Creating a system recovery media: This can be a bootable USB drive or a bootable ISO image file.
2. Recovery from cloud storage using the system recovery media with the Management Console

Alternatively:

2. Recovery from cloud storage using the system recovery media with the Backup Agent
3. Offline bare-metal recovery from local storage using the system recovery media with the Backup Agent