1 If performing the restore as a test, first see Considerations for bare metal test restores
2 If restoring to a Hyper-V VM only, complete the procedure Image-based restore to a Hyper-V virtual machine.
3 Boot the Windows server from the boot CD. Upon completion of the Windows bare metal boot process, the Windows Bare Metal interface displays.
4 Select Bare Metal Restore. This loads the restore GUI which lists all the bare metal backups for this client stored on the backup system. Select one of the backups (normally the most current one).
5 Check the Enable Seek in Restore checkbox to speed up the restore by only sending data to the client, skipping unused sections of the disk.
6 Select the appropriate options for the desired restore operation and click Start Restore.
7 Select the backup and disk to be restored and click Add.
8 Select the Enable Dissimilar Restore checkbox. Then locate the appropriate drivers. Select the known platform that you are restoring to from the list. Then click OK to continue with the verification of the driver files.
9 A message displays to acknowledge the success or failure of the driver file verification.
• If the driver file verification is successful, select OK to continue with the restore and inject the necessary driver files.
• If verification fails, select OK to locate and verify drivers in a different location.
10 Upon successful completion of the restore, the following message displays:
Quit the Bare Metal Restore GUI and reboot the server with the Windows Bare Metal CD removed from the server.
11 Remove the bare metal CD and reboot your server into its operating system by clicking on Diagnostic Tools, then Reboot. Click Yes twice to reboot your system.
12 At this point the Windows boot volume (usually C:) has been restored. Create and format additional volumes as necessary.
Important! If file-level backups of the original Windows client contain files from volumes outside of the Windows boot volume, you must create and format those additional volumes. File-level restore will fail if these additional volumes do not exist.
13 Perform file-level recovery to restore your machine to its latest backup. See Executing a point-in-time restore for details.
Note for Exchange servers: If you are unable to mount Exchange databases after performing the restore, the databases may be in a Dirty Shutdown state. See this Microsoft article for details: Exchange Database is in a Dirty Shutdown State.