How to perform bare metal recovery of windows. 2008 host. This video demonstrates how to perform disaster recovery or bare metal recovery of windows. 2008 windows, 2008 R two or windows seven host.
Here are the disaster recovery pre rec visits. Here are the steps involved boot the system using the bare metal recovery image. The initial screen looks like this.
The command prompt will appear on screen and commands will be executed without any prompt. Do not interrupt the system until the command completes and the recovery wizard appears on screen.
The networker bare metal recovery wizard is displayed set the current date, time and local time zone to match the server date and time. Click next, the available network interface is displayed under the network interfaces section.
If there are multiple network interfaces, then select the network interface to be used from the list. Click next by default, a host name will be assigned under the host name field clear.
The host name, enter the host name, use the same host name as it was configured on the network or server. Enter the client name, enter the DNS domain name configure IP for network interface, either use D HCP or configure the network interface manually enter DNS server IP address.
Click next, select the disc from the list to be used. Click next click search button to search for available networker servers or enter the network or server name manually.
Click next, select the system backup to be restored from the list. Click next, verify the saves set details. Click next to continue. Click restore when prompted checkmark to confirm that you want to format the disks and restore the backup.
Then click, ok, click restore to start the restore. The status will show the restore progress. Wait till the restore completes. The recovery is completed successfully.
Verify the recovery status. The status should show success. Now, click reboot, the wizard window will close and the server will reboot.
