Options For Performing Bare-Metal Restore

There are different kinds of disasters you may need to recover from. At R1Soft we consider any situation requiring you to take your server off-line to Restore as Disaster Recovery, and we call this Bare-Metal Restore. You typically want to perform a Bare-Metal Restore any time you need to Restore more than just a handful of files.

There are two options for performing a *Bare-Metal Restore*.

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{info:title=Note}To use this method, you need a special "boot" server running the services required for PXE Environment to work - DHCP and TFTP, as well as NFS service. Having this "boot" server and R1Soft CDP Server, you will be able to carry out a hands-free, fully automated Disaster Recovery and re-deployment system. For servers which provide remote access to the server console, it can be done via [IP-KVM solutions|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KVM_switch]. This method does not require physical access to the server.
{info}Each of the listed options has two sub-options:
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* *Booting into Agent environment -* To use this option, you need a running CDP Server installed on a machine different from one to which you are going to restore.
* *Booting into Server environment* - This option allows to restore the current machine from a Disk Safe located on a network drive or on the secondary physical disk. When you boot from Live CD *Server* or PXE Network Boot *Server*, then a full-fledged CDP Server runs. In the CDP Server Web Interface you will be able to add the Disk Safe to restore from.

Choose the option that fits your specific needs.

{excerpt:hidden=true}Description of options for performing a Bare-Metal Restore: Live CD Agent and Server, PXE Network Boot Agent and Server. {excerpt}