Recovering from a crash with the bare metal boot CD

Every registered client should have a bare metal crash recovery media created as soon as it is set up. Typically, bare metal backups should be done every month or whenever any major changes (hardware or software) are made to the client. To do a bare metal backup, boot the client using the bare metal CD.

To restore a bare metal backup, you must have created the Bare Metal Plus crash recovery media and a bare metal backup.

To restore a crashed system using the metal boot CD

1

Boot the client from the media.

2

Restore the bare metal backup to the client.

3

Reboot the client using its normal operating system.

4

Restore the last master backup to the client.

5

Restore the last incremental backup that was performed after the last master backup, to the client. This may not be necessary if no incrementals have been done since the last master.