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<main> <article class="userContent"> <h2 data-id="summary"><strong>SUMMARY</strong></h2> <p>Windows Hot Bare Metal backups failing</p> <h2 data-id="issue"><strong>ISSUE</strong></h2> <p></p> <p>--------------------------------------------</p> <p>Hot Bare Metal Summary</p> <p>--------------------------------------------</p> <p>DiskNumber.....: -1</p> <p>ExtendedBootInfo</p> <p>ExtendedBoot.rpt</p> <p>ExtendedBoot.tsr</p> <p>Status.........: Failed</p> <p>--------------------------------------------</p> <p>SnapshotTime...:</p> <p>Misc error</p> <p>Exit Code......: 2</p> <p>Exit Status....: Misc error</p> <p>----- Client Messages -----</p> <p>For more detailed information on backup failures and performance issues see <a rel="nofollow" href="/home/leaving?allowTrusted=1&target=https%3A%2F%2Funitrends-support.zendesk.com%2Fhc%2Fen-us%2Farticles%2F360013174757">Unitrends KB 5062 - Backup Failures and Performance Issues</a>.</p> <h2 data-id="resolution"><strong>RESOLUTION</strong></h2> <p></p> <p>1) Use Windows integrated bare metal recovery (release 7.4 and higher). This feature enables you to recover a client from a file-level back up. It provides hot bare metal protection, and it supports Windows clients with GPT disks. For details, see the <i>Unitrends Administrator's Guide</i> section <a rel="nofollow" href="/home/leaving?allowTrusted=1&target=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.unitrends.com%2Fdocuments%2Flegacy-rs-ueb-admin-guide%2Fdefault.htm%23cshid%3D1910">Windows integrated bare metal recovery</a>.</p> <p>2) Use Windows Instant Recovery. This feature enables you to create a virtual failover client on a Recovery-Series appliance or ESX host (release 7.4 or higher). For details, see the <i>Unitrends Administrator's Guide</i> chapter <a rel="nofollow" href="/home/leaving?allowTrusted=1&target=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.unitrends.com%2Fdocuments%2Flegacy-rs-ueb-admin-guide%2Fdefault.htm%23cshid%3D1909">Windows Instant Recovery</a>.</p> <h2 data-id="cause"><strong>CAUSE</strong></h2> <p>The most likely cause is that the partition style of the disk is setup for GPT/GUID. Currently Hot Bare Metal backup is not supported for disks partitioned with GPT/GUID. The cause could also be attributed to the disk having a FAT32 filesystem. This is also not a supported configuraton for Hot Bare Metal.</p> </article> </main>