Getting started with the Bare Metal Restore plug-in

Protect Windows bare metal servers with IBM Cloud Backup for Classic Bare Metal Restore (BMR) plug-in for disaster recovery from OS or hardware failures.

BMR is a Windows®-only product on physical servers. It is not available for virtual servers. Bare metal restorations for Linux® distributions aren't supported.

Capabilities provided

  • Restore your Windows system to a selected point in time.
  • Restore your system from an 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 option.

Configuring BMR backup job

For more information, see Configuring Bare Metal Restore backup jobs.

Restoring a BMR system volume image

For more information, see Restoring Bare Metal systems with IBM Cloud Backup for Classic.