bare metal restores

[Pants]

Somebody mentioned there are third party backup programs that do bare metal restores. Which third party backup programs do that? Any free ones?

 

[fergeeks]

GFI MAX does but not free sorry

http://backup.gfimax.com/features/d...88_9bZK130AoJGn_XQn9-gzxivIiXCOUIAaAvSB8P8HAQ

 

[Markverhyden]

bare metal restore is the same as a bootable image restore. Most of the better known backup apps will do this. Both free as well as paid.

 

[Pants]

bare metal restore is the same as a bootable image restore. .

I thought "bare metal" implies the hardware that the data being restored to can be different than the original hardware.

I couldn't restore a system image made with Clonezilla, to another computer could I?

 

[SilverLeaf]

I thought "bare metal" implies that the hardware for the data being restored can be different than the original hardware.

I couldn't restore a system image made with Clonezilla, to another computer could I?

Actually you probably could without much trouble if it was *nix. But, I believe what you're after is called hardware independent imaging/restoration.

 

[Markverhyden]

I thought "bare metal" implies the hardware that the data being restored to can be different than the original hardware.

I couldn't restore a system image made with Clonezilla, to another computer could I?

My definition includes all image restores, dissimilar hardware or same machine. For dissimilar hardware the list is much smaller. Nothing that is free, that I am aware of, will move to different hardware. Macrium, Paragon, Easus all have that available in certain versions. I'm sure there are others.