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  2. NetBackup™ Bare Metal Restore Administrator's Guide
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NetBackup™ Bare Metal Restore Administrator's Guide

Generic BMR Restore

NetBackup Bare Metal Restore (BMR) provides a feature to restore a Windows client without performing Prepare to Restore (PTR) operation. This feature is referred to as Generic BMR Restore.

To restore a Windows client using Generic BMR

  1. Boot the client using Windows SRT. After you boot the client using Windows SRT, on the screen that appears, as shown in the figure, press any key to proceed to the Veritas System Recovery Disk wizard.
  2. On the Veritas System Recovery Disk wizard, click Generic BMR Restore
  3. On the screen that appears, as shown in the figure, enter the following network details:
    • IP Address

    • Netmask

    • Gateway

    • NetBackup master server IP address

    • NetBackup master server name

    Then click Contact Master Server.

  4. Validate and confirm if the selected primary server with which the client intends to establish a communication is a trusted server.

    Click Yes, if you trust the primary server.

    For more information on how to validate the Certificate Authority (CA) hash certificate, refer to the Finding and communicating the fingerprint of a CA certificate section in the NetBackup Security and Encryption Guide

    https://support.cohesity.com/s/article/article-100040135

  5. Enter the Reissue token and then click OK.

    Use the Certificate Management node on NetBackup web UI to generate click on the left Host mappings > Hosts > Menu button > Generate reissue token.

    For more information on how to generate a reissue type of authorization token, refer to the Creating a reissue token section in the NetBackup web UI Help or the NetBackup Security and Encryption Guide.

    https://support.cohesity.com/s/article/article-100040135

  6. From the client configuration drop-down list, select the client configuration that you want to restore and click Restore Client.

    Note:

    The list displays configurations of only that particular client with which the provided reissue token is associated.

    Select Show all configurations if you want to view a list of all the configurations that are associated with the client for which you have provided reissue token.

  7. The restore begins with no further user intervention required.
  8. After a successful completion of restore, the host ID-based certificate is copied on the client that is restored.

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