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Performing a Bare-Metal Restore

A bare-metal restore is a full server recovery process used in disaster scenarios, such as a complete hardware failure. This process restores your entire server—including the operating system, applications, and data—from a backup to new hardware.


Warning: This process will completely overwrite all data on your server's new drives. It is a last resort for disaster recovery.


The entire process is managed through a special recovery environment that you launch from the Power Panel.

  1. Navigate to Hardware -> Server Management and next to your server, choose Actions -> Start Rescue mode.
  2. From the Recovery Type drop-down menu, select Acronis Bare-Metal Restore.
  3. Enter a secure password for the recovery session and click Next.

The restore environment will take about 10 minutes to start. Once it's ready, you will need to connect to your server's IP address on port 5900 using a VNC client.