NetVault Bare Metal Recovery 12.2 - User Guide for Plug-ins

Removing a NetVault Bare Metal Recovery Client

If you must remove an existing NetVault Bare Metal Recovery Client from the NetVault Backup Server, perform the following steps:

Booting a NetVault Bare Metal Recovery Client with Plug-in Offline Client

To use the Plug-in Server to back up or restore a target NetVault Bare Metal Recovery Client, take the system offline and boot it with the required components. This process is accomplished by booting the NetVault Bare Metal Recovery Client machine with the Plug-in Offline Client Boot System — the media created in the processes explained in Creating a Plug-in Offline Client Boot System. Rather than installing software to the NetVault Bare Metal Recovery Client’s hard drive, this boot system loads a minimal OS to the NetVault Bare Metal Recovery Client’s memory. Loading the OS to the memory leaves the hard drive inactive (offline) and in a suitable state for either backup or restore.

Booting with Plug-in Offline Client

This process entails the configuration of network equipment installed on the target NetVault Bare Metal Recovery Client; that is, loading driver software for the system’s network interface card or small computer system interface (NIC/SCSI) card to memory to use the device and access the system.

The overall boot routine with Plug-in Offline Client can be broken down into two phases. Also, if you are using the Windows PE-based configuration, you can use one of the following procedures to inject drivers into Windows PE when the network driver is not available on the Windows PE image.

IMPORTANT: Before starting this procedure, verify the boot order of the target NetVault Bare Metal Recovery Client. The machine’s CD drive must be the first source of a boot for this process to work.

Using a Windows Server 2012-based virtual machine with Plug-in Offline Client for Linux

If your VMware virtual machine (VM) is based on Windows Server 2012 or 2012 R2 and you use the Plug-in Offline Client for Linux, update the VMware configuration file to use the E1000 adapter.