Bare metal backup and restore for windows compatible with GCE?
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Mike Randolph
Mar 1, 2018, 3:05:04 PM3/1/18
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Hello All,
Due to the following limitation of GCE I'm having trouble finding a windows bare metal backup system that will work with GCE.
Note: Although you can import any disk image to Compute Engine, importing your own Windows Server boot disk images is not supported. You can access the data from Windows Server disk images, but the operating system itself will not boot. To create Windows Server instances or SQL Server instances on Compute Engine, you can either migrate an entire Windows Server system using the VM Migration Service, or use one of the public images tocreate Windows Server instances.
Carbonite won't work as bare metal restore is started with an ISO or an attached thumb drive which doesn't seem available.
Of course we're doing automatic snapshots nightly but, I'd sure like to be able to get the data backed up to an outside location. Also snapshot's are not great when it comes to running MS-SQL instances and Carbonite and others are able to backup a running SQL instance.
I checked Igloo's backup and I can't find any mention of GCE in the documentation.
Navi Aujla (Google Cloud Support)
Mar 1, 2018, 11:01:52 PM3/1/18
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Hello Mike,
Referring to the discussion thread [1]: "GCP does not support the ability to boot a bare metal server." However, you can lookup for the 3rd party Cloud backup and disaster recovery solutions which fulfills your requirement. You can check with the partners[2] as well.
You can migrate VMs to compute engine using the VM migration services such as CloudEndure. In addition, just for the information currently it is not possible to export a Windows Server image[3] as well. You can submit a feature request per your use case providing detail information using this link.
Referring to the discussion thread [1]: "GCP does not support the ability to boot a bare metal server." However, you can lookup for the 3rd party Cloud backup and disaster recovery solutions which fulfills your requirement. You can check with the partners[2] as well.
You can migrate VMs to compute engine using the VM migration services such as CloudEndure. In addition, just for the information currently it is not possible to export a Windows Server image[3] as well. You can submit a feature request per your use case providing detail information using this link.
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