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I am testing the last 2 items on my list before going to the owners to get them to approve the purchase of UEB.

We have a Windows Server 2000 physical box that I have Bare Metal backup working on.

My question is in the event of a disaster and I have to “restore” this to a VM, what is the correct way?

I found this article, but it says Windows Vista and later.

http://www.unitrends.com/forum/showthread.php/2152-Restoring-a-production-server-to-a-test-server

Does that article indeed apply, as it seems it would?

NOTE: This would be for a worse case scenrio only. I have 2 cold boxes in storage that match the physical server and the first choice would be to do a normal Bare Metal restore to physical.

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At first glance, the steps look approximately correct. If you are at all concerned, you could consider downloading the 30-day trial of the Unitrends UEB and actually going through the full exercise - deploying the agents to your server, doing a baremetal backup and a full backup, then doing a test restore to a VM (you may want to keep make sure the NIC is turned off on power-up, so it won’t affect your production environment). That way you’ll know for sure if it works.

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John - Those steps do look correct. If you’d like, we can have an engineer walk you through the process so that you can test it out.

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Thanks.

No need for the engineer, I just got caught off guard with the reference to Windows Vista or later, since there is a big change in the why those OSs boot, but for otherwise the steps listed look as expected. Just wanted to make sure.