Support for ASR for these operating systems was introduced in Tivoli Storage Manager for Windows Backup-Archive client version 6.2.2, at which time ASR was added to the Backup-Archive client's system state backup and restore capabilities.ĪSR-based recovery must be performed from within the Windows Preinstallation Environment (WinPE). However, beginning with Windows Vista and Windows 2008, Microsoft integrated ASR with Microsoft Volume Shadowcopy Service (VSS). ASR has been a feature of Microsoft Windows operating systems since Windows XP. See Best Practices for Recovering Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8 for using ASR to recover Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1.ĪSR is a feature of Microsoft Windows for backing up a system's disk and volume configuration, and restoring it during a bare metal restore operation. Windows NT 6 includes Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 7, and Windows Vista.
This paper provides detailed instructions for creating Automated System Recovery (ASR) based recovery media for the Microsoft Windows NT 6 family of operating systems, and using it to perform a full system recovery ('bare metal restore').
