Disaster Recovery with Bare Metal Restore

What is Disaster Recovery with Bare Metal Restore?

Full system recovery for disaster recovery scenarios

In the event of a catastrophic failure, every second counts. Rebuilding a system from scratch typically includes first manually installing operating systems and then drivers and business applications. Next comes the restoration of important file data and the recovery of custom settings. This process can cause backup administrators to spend hours, or even days, to restore systems.

With NovaStor disaster recovery image backups, administrators have the ability to "restore from scratch", enabling them to restore entire systems (including the operating system and applications) at once - even on completely different machines with different hardware.

• Agnostic storage images for system-to-system recovery in just a few minutes
• True universal restore for different hardware for Windows and Linux environments
• Restore to the same location, on a new system with different hardware, or on a VM

Proper disaster recovery planning is critical

With limited resources and a tight budget, a complete disaster recovery plan can be difficult to implement, but not impossible. First, you want to identify potential risks to your organization, then establish a backup strategy to minimize downtime, and finally, you need to test and review the plan to ensure that your files can be easily restored.

In addition to file backups, disaster recovery images can streamline the restore process, including all system data to bring a mirror image of your previous machine back into production after any disaster scenario. Using a single backup set, disaster recovery offers the added benefits of being a fast and relatively simple process.

A good disaster recovery plan consists of some critical components:

• Proper preparation, including understanding your individual risks, assets and responsibilities.
• Specific insurance coverage for your area and needs.
• A data backup plan that includes an external location.
• Your backups have been tested and are ready to be restored when needed.
• Detailed recovery plan in writing, with which all employees are familiar and ready to execute.
• Flexible options for employees after a disaster if they are unable to move to work or are injured due to the disaster.

System requirements:

CPU: 1.8 GHz dual core processor

RAM: 2 GB

HDD / SSD: 50 GB of free space on the main drive

Operating system: Microsoft Windows 8 32-bit, Microsoft Windows 7 32-bit and Microsoft Windows Vista 32-bit

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