About restoring AWS RHEL and Windows VM clients

Bare Metal Recovery (BMR) facilitates the backup and recovery of AWS virtual machines running on the RHEL and Windows operating system platform.

For more details about BMR supported RHEL and Windows OS platform, refer to the BMR SCL.

This feature is particularly useful in AWS Local Zones where snapshot functions are not available.

In the NetBackup web UI, a new option is now visible in the configuration for BMR clients running RHEL and Wondows EC2 on AWS virtual machines. This option is Restore to Cloud.

NetBackup primary server can reside either on-premises or on AWS EC2. NetBackup RHEL and / or Windows client(s) and media server must be configured on AWS EC2. NetBackup Snapshot Manager (NBSM) must be installed and configured alongside the NetBackup Primary Server. Additionally, AWS VM(s) intended for protection must already be discovered by NBSM.

The BMR backup process captures required instance details alongside the standard BMR backup data.