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Bare Metal for x86 Platforms

The procedures in this chapter apply to all Intel-compatible platforms running on x86 architecture, other than Linux and Windows. For Linux and Windows clients, see Bare Metal for Linux or Windows Bare Metal Protection.

Cold bare metal backups are used to protect x86 platforms. To start, burn a bare metal ISO image to CD. Then run periodic cold bare metal backups by shutting down the client, booting from the CD, and selecting the bare metal backup option from the boot menu. For disaster recovery, boot from the CD, then restore the bare metal backup followed by any file-level backups (master, differential, etc.).

See the following topics for details:

• Intel platforms bare metal disaster recovery
• Specifying bare metal settings for a client
• Testing bare metal backups
• Recovering from a crash with the bare metal boot CD
• Using the bare metal crash recovery boot CD
• Bare metal boot CD menu options
• Manual bare metal backup
• When to perform a cold bare metal backup
• Recovering from a crash using cold bare metal
• Configuration settings for CD only version of bare metal
• Bare metal optimization
• Novell agent bare metal optimizer utility