Bare-Metal Recovery with Managed Backup

What Is Bare-Metal Recovery?

Bare-Metal Recovery (or Bare-Metal Restore, or BMR) is a way to recover a source computer on a target computer with no installed operating system - also called a bare-metal machine. To do this, you need a backup of the system image (a complete copy of your source computer) to restore everything as it was.

When Do You Need Bare-Metal Recovery?

You might need Bare-Metal Recovery in these situations:

• After a ransomware attack.
• When your computer hardware fails.
• Disaster recovery scenarios.
• To set up multiple computers with the same configuration using a master image.

Basic Bare Metal Recovery Scenarios

Management Console

Backup Agent

1. Ensure a successful image-based backup is available in backup storage.
2. Create a bootable USB drive or ISO image using the Backup Agent.
3. Boot the target machine from the bootable USB or ISO image.
4. Create a restore plan.
5. Wait for the restore plan to complete successfully.

What You Need for Bare-Metal Recovery?

• A successful Image-Based Backup of source computer
• Bare-Metal Recovery USB or ISO image file.
• An internet connection (Ethernet) to access Management Console and the backup storage where the successful image-based backup of the source computer is stored.
• Valid trial or paid Backup license

Bare-Metal Recovery Options with Managed Backup

• Option 1. Local Bare-Metal Recovery:
  • Recovery happens on-site using local backup storage.
  • Internet access (Ethernet) is required.
• Option 2. Combined Local/Remote Bare-Metal Recovery:
  • Some steps must be done by someone near the target computer.
  • Most of the recovery steps can be performed via the Management Console (only one)
  • Internet access (Ethernet) is required
• Option 3. Remote Bare-Metal Recovery to a Secondary Disk:
  • Any machine with the Backup Agent can be used to restore an image from a backup to a secondary disk. The disk needs to be attached via the SATA interface. After the restore is finished, the disk can be installed into the target system
  • Internet access (Ethernet) is required

References:

Local Bare-Metal Recovery

1. Create a Bootable USB media
2. (Optional) Add boot-critical drivers
3. Perform local Bare-Metal Recovery using the instructions in this document

Local/Remote Bare-Metal Recovery

1. Create a Bootable USB media
2. (Optional) Add boot-critical drivers
3. Perform Bare-Metal Recovery using the instructions in this document

Remote Bare-Metal Recovery to a Secondary Disk

1. Connect an HDD or SSD drive to a source computer using a SATA connection. Ensure the Backup Agent is installed on the computer and has an MSP360 user account with access to the backup destination where the successful image-based backup of the source computer is stored.
2. Follow the restore procedure described in the article using the Restore as physical disk option.
3. Once the restore process is complete, install the drive into the target machine and configure the system to boot from this drive.