Bare-metal Recovery
Restore an entire machine to identical or replacement hardware.
Bare-metal recovery is the answer to the worst day. The drive controller died, the office flooded, or ransomware encrypted the whole disk. You need the server back, not just its files.
CloudIP bare-metal recovery uses UrBackup-style imaging to capture the full disk, replicates the image alongside your file backups, and restores via boot media to identical or replacement hardware. Recoveries that used to take days take a night on a fast link.
Inside Bare-metal Recovery
Specifics that distinguish CloudIP Bare-metal Recovery from the alternative.
Full-disk image capture
Periodic image snapshots in addition to file-level backups, retained per your policy.
Boot media generation
Generate USB or ISO recovery media that knows about your vault and credentials.
Hardware-independent restore
Restore to different hardware with driver injection on Windows and dracut rebuild on Linux.
Coordinated with restic
File-level restic backups and image backups share retention and verification, so you do not run two products.
Bare-metal Recovery on the CloudIP platform
Where this capability lives, who runs it, and what it shares with the rest of the system.
Bare-metal Recovery runs as part of the CloudIP Backup & Recovery module on the same multi-tenant infrastructure as every other capability you use. There is no separate console to log into and no separate billing line: bare-metal recovery is provisioned the moment your tenant is created and stays in lockstep with the rest of the platform as it grows.
Operators interact with bare-metal recovery through the Backup & Recovery interface they already know — the same record screens, the same audit trail, the same role and permission model. Behind the scenes, full-disk image capture handles the heavy lifting, while coordinated with restic keep the experience consistent across teams. Configuration changes are versioned, exportable, and reviewable, so the way you run bare-metal recovery today is reproducible tomorrow.
Because Bare-metal Recovery reuses the platform's user database, every action is attributable, every record has a stable ID, and every export honours the tenant's data residency choice. That means bare-metal recovery reports tie out to the rest of the books, audit logs, and operational dashboards without an integration step in between.
Bare-metal Recovery fits inside CloudIP Backup & Recovery alongside the other backup & recovery capabilities — they share the same data model, so improvements in one tend to compound across the others. If you are evaluating CloudIP specifically for bare-metal recovery, the rest of Backup & Recovery comes along at no extra cost.
Common questions about Bare-metal Recovery
Yes. The bare-metal restore image is hardware-independent: drivers are injected on Windows, dracut rebuilds the initramfs on Linux, and the new boot path is rewritten before the first boot. Replacement chassis, virtualization platforms, and even cloud VMs are valid targets.
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