To the uninitiated this may sound rather strange. In fact this
can be a life-saver for any business
with a business critical server or workstation which has failed and
needs to be recovered. Traditional backup technologies only backup
and restore files, but not the entire system. Bare metal restore
means you can restore a system from a failure straight onto a
separate piece of hardware or virtual environment without having to
reinstall any software or worry about
Restoring to Dissimilar Hardware
Everyone knows how fast computers are updates and changed and
how quickly models are replaced. Bare metal restore functionality
when partnered with the right backup software means you can
recovery your server or workstation to dissimilar hardware. This
means that you don't have to have identical hardware to recover
your server or workstation backup to. Furthermore, this type of
backup software can also be used to restore a server to a virtual
machine.
Key Benefits
- Quicker restore time meaning less downtime
- No need to keep expensive spare machines ready to recover to
following a disaster
- Full system configuration is backed up and restored so no need
to locate software disks etc in order to reload
How can I benefit?
Backup solutions providing this service also support individual
file restoration just like traditional backup so you only need one
system that supports normal file based and full image based backup
strategies.