Bare Metal Recovery-Restore DC on Server 2019

HOW TO PERFORM BARE METAL RECOVERY USING BACKUP ON WINDOWS SERVER 2019.?

What is Bare Metal Recovery.?

Bare Metal Recovery is a procedure of restoration and data recovery in which data is available in a form that allows one to restore a computer system from bare metal.

However, the biggest adavantage of using this solution type are: speed, easiness, safety, etc.

In pervious article we have install Windows Server backup feature and perform bare metal backup in DC Machine on Windows Server 2019.

In this article, We will delete DC Machine and will perform bare metal restore using backup.

 

Lab Environment

For preforming bare metal recovery we are using two machines:-

Host Machine- It is a physical machine with the static IP Address 192.168.0.10,

However, We have install hyper V role on this machine.

DC Machine- This machine is virtual machine which is hosted on Host Machine with IP Address-192.168.0.20,

The name of virtual machine is DC and windows server 2019 OS is installed on both physical aswell as virtual machine.

We will use bare metal backup to restore DC machine.

 

bare metal backup

 

Task To Perform On Host Machine

 

Open Hyper V Manager

Right Click on ” DC” 

Click on “Turn Off or Shut Down”

 

hyper v

 

On Hyper-V Manager Wizard,

Right Click on “DC”

Click on “Delete”

DC machine is now delete and removed from Virtual Machines List.

 

bare metal recovery process

 

Right Click On “HOST”

Click on “New”

Select “Virtual Machine”

 

bare metal recovery virtual machine

 

Click on “Next” on Before you begin wizard

 

before you begin

 

Specify name of Virtual Machine

Click on “Next”

 

bare metal recovery vm name

 

On Specify Generation,

Select “Generation 2”

Click on “Next”

 

bare metal recovery generation 2

 

 

On Assign Memory Console,

Give Startup Memory

Check the box if you want dynamic memory for virtual machine

Click on “Next”

 

bare metal recovery startup ram

 

On Configure Networking console,

Select “Virtual Switch”

 

switch

 

Select Create a virtual hard disk

You can change location of Virtual hard disk

Give Size to Virtual machine

Click on “Next”

 

bare metal recovery machine

 

Select Install an operating system from a bootable image file

Browse and give ISO image file location

Click on “Next”

 

iso image

 

Review the summary on Completing the New Virtual Machine Wizard,

Click on “Finish”

 

bare metal recovery confirmation

 

Right Click on “New Virtual Machine”

Select “Settings”

 

bare metal recovery start machine

 

 

On SCSI Controller Console,

Select on “Hard Drive”

Click on “Add”

 

iscsi controller

 

Select “Physical Hard disk”

Select Disk

Click on “Apply”

 

physical hard disk console

 

Restoring DC Using Bare Metal Backup

Right Click on “New Virtual Machine”

Click on “Connect”

 

bare metal recovery connect

 

Click on “Start”

 

bare metal recovery start

 

On Windows Setup Console,

Click on “Next”

 

bare metal recovery boot

 

Now Click on “Repair Your Computer”

 

bare metal recovery windows setup

 

From choos an option

Select “Troubleshoot”

 

bare metal recovery trobleshoot

 

On Troubleshoot console,

Click on “Advanced Options”

 

bare metal recovery advanced options

 

“Select System Image Recovery” on Advanced Options console

 

bare metal recovery system image recovery

 

From Re- image your computer console,

Select use the latest available system image(recommended)

Click on “Next”

 

bare metal recovery image

 

Click on “Next” in choose additional restore options console

 

rare metal recovery options

 

On Re-image your computer wizard,

Click on “Finish”

 

bare metal recovery finish

 

 

Click on “Yes” in Re-image your computer message prompt

 

re image

 

 

Re-image your computer will again prompt message,

Windows is Restoring your computer from the system image.

Wait till Restoration process gets complete.

 

re image your computer

 

After restoration will get complete,

Click on “Restart now” on Re-image your computer message prompt.

 

restart

 

Post reboot,

Login with domain administrator

Enter Password of DC

 

domain administrator

 

After Entering the Password,

You will see our DC(Virtual Machine) and it is finally restore.

 

domain controller

Result

In this way, We can successfully perform bare metal recovery on Windows server 2019 using windows server backup feature.

However, If in case you face any issue by following the above steps.

Feel Free to contact us at contact@kaptechpro.com

Morever, Watch how to perform bare metal backup and restore on Windows Server 2019

 

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