Getting started with the Bare Metal Restore plug-in
Bare Metal Restore is a disaster recovery solution. You can use BMR to restore your server from a bare metal state after a disaster, such as an operating system or hardware failure, occurred. With BMR, you can quickly restore the system image from a safe, secure location that is managed by IBM Cloud®.
BMR is a Windows®-only product on physical servers. It is not available for virtual servers. Bare Metal Restores for Linux® distributions aren't supported.
Capabilities provided
- Restore your system to a selected point in time.
- Restore your system from image or file-based backups.
- Restore your system from backups that are stored on the IBM Cloud Backup for Classic.
- Start a recovery transaction that you can use to restore your data without a bootable system.
Installing the BMR plug-in
The plug-in is installed during the Windows® Agent installation. The plug-in can be installed at the same time as the Agent or it can be installed later, by rerunning the installation with the Modify selection.
Configuring BMR backup job
For more information, see Configuring BMR backup jobs.
Restoring a BMR system volume image
For more information, see Restoring a BMR system volume image.
Downloading the user guide
Connect to the IBM Cloud® network with IBM Cloud® VPN so that you can access and download the user guide from the Downloadable IBM Cloud Backup for Classic Documentation.