Backup and perform bare metal recovery
The Bare metal recovery (BMR) is the process of restoring a backup onto a new machine. Suppose your file server, FS1, has a catastrophic failure and has to be replaced by a new server computer. To get this new host up and running, you could manually run through the setup of the OS, add relevant print drivers, re-define the printers, and then restore the data. Or you could just do a BMR from a backup. This recipe shows how to do bare metal recovery using the PowerShell cmdlets in the WindowsServerBackup
module and then the bare metal recovery feature of Windows Setup.
Getting ready
To enable you to see BMR in action on a server, you must first install the Windows backup feature loaded on the server you wish to back up. You run the first part of this recipe on your server to create a backup capable of being restored using BMR. Then, after replacing the hardware, you perform a recovery onto to a new server based on the backup previously taken. This recipe...