Disaster Recovery
Bare Metal Recovery for Linux and Windows
With SEP’s Bare Metal Recovery, users can restore entire servers, operating systems, and databases quickly and easily using a universal boot medium. This recovery method can be achieved regardless of the type of hardware in use. SEP disaster recovery solutions allow users to replace a computer system or disk drive and easily restore the environment to full operation within minutes.
To ensure a fast and complete system recovery, SEP’s Bare Metal Recovery solutions are fully integrated in the SEP sesam backup module and can be controlled by a single point of administration. System administrators managing many systems know that server storage devices frequently fail. According to Google System Labs, around 140,000 hard drives abruptly fail every week, destroying many petabytes of data. With the release of SEP sesam Bare System Recovery, disk drive and system failures need no longer be a devastating occurrence.
Solution | Windows BSR Dissimilar |
Windows BSR |
Linux BSR |
Automatic hardware and driver detection | ✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Restore to larger or smaller partitions | ✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Change partition size during restore to a partition that is physically larger than the original partition | ✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Backup encryption option | ✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Command line interfaces | ✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Individual partition restore, leaving others intact | ✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Run batch programs before and after system restore | ✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Universal boot media (CD, DVD, flash, USB, etc.) | ✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Multiple servers can be recovered simultaneously | ✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Supports IDE, SCSI, SATA and Fibre channel, hardware RAID, clustered servers, SAN and NAS | ✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Protects mission critical servers from the consequences of both physical damage and corruption of the operating system | ✓ |
OS only |
OS only |
Restore to similar or dissimilar hardware | ✓ |
similar only |
similar only |
Wizard based Recovery | client based |
server based |
server based |
Disaster Recovery | P2V, V2P, P2P, V2V |
P2P, V2V |
P2P, V2V |
Recovery of dynamic disk volume | ✓ |
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Server migration to new hardware | ✓ |
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Supports Itanium, 32-bit and 64-bit processors | ✓ |
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File-by-file backup: no disk image | ✓ |
✓ |
System recovery takes between 10 and 30 minutes depending on data volume, hardware and network performance.
Along with SEP sesam backup software, SEP sesam Bare System Recovery controls the restoration of operating systems and complete user data after a breakdown.
SEP sesam BSR offers the capability to quickly and comprehensively restore clients without prior partitioning or installing an operating system, with a bootable SEP BSR Media.
The restoration of the chosen client is controlled centrally through the SEP sesam server and is available for Linux and Windows operating systems.
Migration made easy. Migrate form physical to virtual systems or from virtual to physical machines using SEP sesam Bare System Recovery.

