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Bare Metal Recovery (BMR): What It Is and How It Works

Tue, 07 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Bare metal recovery (BMR) is the process of restoring a complete computer system onto a machine that has no operating system installed. One BMR restore brings back the operating system, applications, configuration, and data together from a single system-level backup image, so nobody has to install Windows or Linux first and then layer the data back on afterwards.

What is bare metal recovery (BMR)?

The name describes the state of the target. Bare metal is hardware with nothing on it, no operating system, no drivers, no middleware. A wiped server counts. So does a freshly created virtual machine, which is why BMR is just as relevant to virtualized estates as it is to physical ones.

Catalogic vStor A Modern Software-Defined Backup Storage Platform

Tue, 06 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Here at Catalogic we can’t stress enough that having solid backups isn’t just important -it’s essential. But what happens when the backups themselves become targets? We’ve built a modern storage solution to address exactly that concern. That means that DPX customers are in a particularly fortunate position. Rather than having to shop around for a compatible backup storage solution, they get vStor included right in the DPX suite. This means they automatically benefit from enterprise-grade features like data deduplication, compression, and most importantly, robust immutability controls that can lock backups against unauthorized changes.