Protection of the Mac client begins with the creation of an ISO file that captures information about the system running in its natural state. This ISO image file is then burned to a hot bare metal DVD that can be used to recover a system in the case of disaster or unrecoverable crash. From this disk you boot into the recovery environment and restore the system and files to the state that existed before the crash.
Unitrends supports hot bare metal restore for computers with the following Mac operating systems: Mac OS X 10.5 through Mac OS X 10.11. For a complete list of Unitrends supported Mac OS X versions, see the Unitrends Compatibility and Interoperability Matrix.
Note these hot bare metal limitations:
| • | Dissimilar bare metal restore is not supported on any Mac OS X at this time. |
| • | The following file systems are supported: HFS and HFS+. |