Creating hot bare metal Mac OS X boot media

To recover a protected system, a hot bare metal USB drive or DVD must be created on the computer being protected. A few things to keep in mind:

The hot bare metal media should be tested after creation to make sure it will work when a system needs to be restored. The media can be tested by selecting the Test option on the Mac OS X Hot Bare Metal v.60 interface. See Mac OS X hot bare metal restore for accessing this menu.
A full backup of the client is required prior to doing a hot bare metal restore. Full backups can be performed from the appliance UI or from the backup menu.
The hot bare metal media cannot be created after a system crashes.
The computer’s (asset’s) hostname should be registered on the backup system.

Use one of the following procedures to create the boot media:

To create the Mac OS X boot media for 10.10 and 10.11
To create the Mac OS X boot media for 10.9 and earlier versions

To create the Mac OS X boot media for 10.10 and 10.11

1 Place an empty 8GB or larger USB drive in the computer’s media drive.
2 Connect to the Mac asset by using a terminal emulator (such as PuTTY) and log in as user root or administrator.
3 Enter the working directory where the ISO file will be built.
4 Run the Bare Metal utility by entering mkbmcd from the location where the Mac agent is installed. Example commands are given here:
For Mac 10.10, the default agent location is /usr/bp. For an agent installed in that location, enter this command:

/usr/bp/bin/mkbmcd

For Mac 10.11, the default agent location is /usr/loca/bp. For an agent installed in that location, enter this command:

/usr/local/bp/bin/mkbmcd

5 When the ISO image is complete, the following message displays:

The newly created iso image is present at the location.

6 Determine the disk number of the USB drive by entering this command:

diskutil list

7 Enter the following command to burn the ISO image to the USB drive, where the X is the disk number of the USB drive:

dd if=<image> of=/dev/rdiskX bs=1m

To create the Mac OS X boot media for 10.9 and earlier versions

1 Place a blank DVD in the computer’s media drive.
2 Connect to the Mac asset by using a terminal emulator (such as PuTTY) and log in as user root or administrator.
3 Enter the working directory where the ISO file will be built.
4 Run the Bare Metal utility by entering mkbmcd from the location where the Mac agent is installed. For Mac 10.9 and earlier, the default agent location is /usr/bp. For an agent installed in that location, enter this command:

/usr/bp/bin/mkbmcd

5 When the ISO image is complete, the following message displays:

The newly created iso image is present at the location.

6 Enter the following command to burn the ISO image to a disk:

hdiutil burn /<path>/bm_<hostname>.iso.cdr