This section describes requirements for Windows bare metal protection.
The following operating systems support hot bare metal backups and restores:
• Microsoft Windows 2000 (WinPE 1.5)
Note: On Windows 2000, hot bare metal does not guarantee application consistency since no applications are compliant with Microsoft Volume Shadow-copy Services (VSS) application programming interfaces on this operating system. Due to limited VSS support in Windows 2000, combinations of non-VSS aware applications can result in consistency issues with the system state. This can cause bare metal images to be unstable. If this occurs, use cold bare metal backups to ensure image integrity as described in Performing cold bare metal backups and restores.
• Microsoft Windows XP (32- and 64-bit, WinPE 1.5)
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (32- and 64-bit, WinPE 1.5)
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 (WinPE 1.5)
• Vista (32- and 64-bit, WinPE 2.0)
• Windows 7 (WinPE 2.0)
• Windows 8 (WinPE 2.0)
• Windows 8.1 (WinPE 2.0)
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 (32- and 64-bit, WinPE 2.0)
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 (WinPE 2.0)
• Microsoft Windows Server 2012 (64-bit, WinPE 2.0)
• Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 (WinPE 2.0)
In addition, the following conditions must be met for hot bare metal backups:
• Client bare metal agent is version 2.1 or higher.
• Client is registered to the Unitrends system.
• Disks configured as Basic (not Dynamic).
• MBR boot partition.
Note: Systems with dynamic disks and GPT boot partitions can be protected through cold bare metal backups. See Linux cold bare metal protection for details. Systems with UEFI BIOS are automatically partitioned with GPT and should be protected with cold bare metals.
The following conditions must be met for image-based restores:
• Bare metal boot media has been created and is available for the client.
• A valid hot bare metal backup exists for the client.
• The restore target machine has a minimum of 256MB of RAM available.
• The target has a graphics card supporting a minimum 800X600 resolution.
• The target disk is at least as large as the source disk.