Disaster recovery with archived data

You can use archived data to perform bare metal recovery of clients and to perform disaster recovery of a Unitrends appliance.

Bare metal recovery from archived data

To perform bare metal recovery using archived data, you must first restore the necessary bare metal or file-level backups to a Unitrends appliance. You can then use these backups to perform the recovery. For details about bare metal recovery, see Bare Metal Protection Overview.

Disaster recovery from archived data

System metadata for the Unitrends appliance is written to archive media during each archive job, and this data can be used for disaster recovery of the appliance. For instructions, see System restore from archive.

Note:  Disaster recovery from tape archive is not supported.