You have two options for hot bare metal recovery (BMR) of Windows clients: Windows integrated BMR and Windows image-based BMR.
With Windows integrated BMR, Unitrends provides Unified Bare Metal™ protection by enabling you to perform disaster recovery (DR) of your Windows client right from its file-level backup. This reduces recovery time enabling you to meet more aggressive recovery time objectives (RTOs), provides additional recovery points enabling you to meet more aggressive recovery point objectives (RPOs), increases on-system retention by eliminating the need for bare metal backups, and simplifies the Windows DR process.
Windows DR is simplified with the new Integrated BMR Wizard and standard 32-bit and 64-bit ISO images that can be used to recover most Windows clients, eliminating the need to create bare metal ISOs for each protected client and keep them on-hand in case disaster strikes.
With image-based BMR, you must run bare metal backups and create ISOs for each Windows client you want to protect. Image-based BMR can protect older versions of Windows that are not supported by integrated BMR.
Note: About Windows virtual machines - If you have Windows VMware or Hyper-V virtual machines, you can protect them using Unitrends VMware backups, Hyper-V backups, or by installing the Windows agent and running Unitrends file-level backups. If you are running agent-based file-level backups for a VM, use the hot bare metal procedures in this chapter for Disaster Recovery. If you are running VMware or Hyper-V backups for a VM, restore the virtual machine using these procedures instead: Restoring the entire VMware virtual machine (VMware) or Restoring Hyper-V virtual machines.
For details, see the following topics:
| • | Integrated BMR and image-based BMR comparison |
| • | Windows integrated bare metal recovery |
| • | Windows image-based bare metal recovery |