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NetVault Bare Metal Recovery 12.4 - User Guide for Plug-ins

Introducing NetVault Bare Metal Recovery Plug-ins Deploying NetVault Bare Metal Recovery Using the Plug-in Offline Client
Plug-in Server: an overview Installing and removing Plug-in Server Configuring Plug-in Server for use with Plug-in Offline Client Booting a NetVault Bare Metal Recovery Client with Plug-in Offline Client Backing up data with Plug-in Offline Client Restoring data with Plug-in Offline Client
Using NetVault Bare Metal Recovery Plug-in Live Client for Windows
Plug-in Live Client for Windows: an overview Configuring Plug-in Server for use with Plug-in Live Client for Windows Installing and removing Plug-in Live Client for Windows Backing up data with Plug-in Live Client for Windows Booting a NetVault Bare Metal Recovery Client with Plug-in Offline Client Restoring data with Plug-in Live Client for Windows
Using NetVault Bare Metal Recovery Plug-in Live Client for Linux
Plug-in Live Client for Linux: an overview Installing and removing Plug-in Live Client for Linux Generating a DR image for use with Plug-in Live Client for Linux Creating the required bootable CD for use with Plug-in Live Client for Linux Recovering a DR image for use with Plug-in Live Client for Linux
NetVault Bare Metal Recovery physical-to-virtual (P2V) recovery Troubleshooting

Target audience

System administration experience is recommended when using the Plug-in Offline Client or the Plug-in Live Client. Although it is not necessary to have this level of experience to perform routine backups, the initial configuration of each plug-in, the configuration of a target NetVault Bare Metal Recovery Client, and the restore procedure require administrator knowledge.

Recommended additional reading

The following documentation is also available:

Quest NetVault Backup Installation Guide: This guide provides details on installing the NetVault Backup Server and Client software.
Quest NetVault Backup Administrator’s Guide: This guide explains how to use NetVault Backup and describes the functionality common to all plug-ins.

You can download these guides from https://support.quest.com/technical-documents/.

Deploying NetVault Bare Metal Recovery

NetVault Bare Metal Recovery components

NetVault Bare Metal Recovery includes two key components, or plug-ins, each of which provides its own form of disaster recovery (DR) backup, and a third component that serves as a basic OS that is used to prepare a target NetVault Bare Metal Recovery Client for backup and restore.

NetVault Bare Metal Recovery includes the following technical components:

Plug-in Offline Client for x86/x86-64 Clients
Plug-in Live Client for Windows
Plug-in Live Client for Linux
Plug-in Server

The topics that follow provide a brief description of each of these components.

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