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Adaptable System Recovery (ASR) for Linux virtual machines

The need for Bare-Metal recovery

Published March 2014

Imagine that your company will need to recover from a total system failure with the loss of all data, the operating system, applications, settings, and patches. Many systems administrators are under the false impression that a simple reinstall of the operating system or re-­provision from a template will be good enough since their enterprise backup products are backing up the data. Recovering from a catastrophic failure is a complex operation that takes anywhere from hours to weeks.

In this whitepaper learn how Bare-­Metal Recovery (BMR) can restore the Operating System (OS) with all of the configurations and application data in tact, whilst preventing lengthy downtime and costly mistakes when attempting to replicate the original system.