Bare metal recovery methods
From Backup Central
When your operating system drive is destroyed, the only choice you have is a bare-metal recovery. If you're using one of the following operating systems, the Backup & Recovery book documents a free bare-metal recovery tool for your OS.
| OS | Method | |
| AIX | mksysb | Documented in Backup & Recovery book (Buy It) |
| Linux | Home-grown | Read Free Linux & Windows Bare Metal Recovery Chapter Here |
| Solaris | Flash Recovery | Documented in Backup & Recovery book (Buy It) |
| HP-UX 10.x+ | Make_recovery | Documented in Backup & Recovery book (Buy It) |
| MacOS X | Home-grown | Documented in Backup & Recovery book (Buy It) |
| Windows | Home-grown | Read Free Linux & Windows Bare Metal Recovery Chapter Here |
Although they didn't make it into Backup & Recovery, this site also has archived versions of free bare metal recovery tools for IRIX and Tru64.
Of course, there are also commercial bare metal recovery tools
| Vendor/Product | Supported OSs |
| Storix | AIX, Linux |
| Lone-Tar's Rescue Ranger | Linux, SCO |
| Symantec's Ghost | Windows, Linux |
| Yosemite Backup | Windows, Linux, Novell |
| Ultrabac | Windows |
| Symantec's BMR | Windows, Linux, Unix |
| Acronis | Windows, Linux |
| Paragon | Windows |
| Winternals | Windows |
