1 time Bare Metal Backups
Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2012 1:07 pm
Hi, I am not yet a Customer but I'm looking into the product for some unique reasons. I need to automate 1 time bare metal backups of 50-100 machines at a time. Once these backups are done, the product will no longer be needed on the machine (and we would no longer want to pay for the licensing.)
The reason we need this is to prepare machines for encryption. During the encryption process we lose about 3% of our machines. (the disks just fail or the encryption process fails)
So we're looking for something that will automate 1 time bare metal backup. Perhaps we could script the install, the backup and the uninstall (without a reboot?). I'm wondering if anyone has thoughts on how best to make this happen.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Justin
The reason we need this is to prepare machines for encryption. During the encryption process we lose about 3% of our machines. (the disks just fail or the encryption process fails)
So we're looking for something that will automate 1 time bare metal backup. Perhaps we could script the install, the backup and the uninstall (without a reboot?). I'm wondering if anyone has thoughts on how best to make this happen.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Justin