IDrive® BMR backup agent

Install the backup agent on the computers you wish to secure with your IDrive BMR device. The agent works with the device interface to perform regular and CBT-based incremental backups.

To secure a computer,

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Backup agent version 4.4.1

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IDrive® BMR firmware version 6.0.0 and below

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IDrive® BMR Recovery Media Builder

Install the IDrive BMR Recovery Media Builder application, create an ISO recovery media and upload it to the IDrive BMR device interface for future use.

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Linux-based recovery media (ready to use)

Download a Linux-based pre-built recovery environment to boot up a Linux computer on which bare-metal restore needs to be initiated.

We recommend that you create a WinRE-based recovery media using the IDrive BMR Recovery Media Builder. You can use Linux-based recovery only if you do not have ready access to an alternate computer from where you can build the WinRE-based recovery media.

Linux recovery instructions
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IDrive® BMR Device

Keep your data protected against ransomware with the latest firmware updates for your IDrive BMR device

Perform image-based backups of your computers, local servers, and virtual machines to a local device with bare-metal restore functionality.

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MSI package for remote deployment

Download the MSI package and deploy the IDrive BMR backup agent on multiple computers in your network via Microsoft Active Directory GPO.

To deploy the IDrive BMR backup agent,

  • 1Download the MSI package to your computer.
  • 2Copy the MSI package to a network-shared folder.
  • 3Set up mass deployment using Microsoft Active Directory and Group Policy. Know more
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Note: For the installation to be successful, you must have Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 Redistributable installed on your system. Click here to download the latest update.

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System Requirements

Operating systems supported by backup agent version 5.0.1 and higher

Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, Windows 11, Windows Server 2008 (x86), Windows Server 2008R2, Windows Server 2011 SBS, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2022, Windows Server 2025

Operating systems supported by backup agent version 5 and higher

Windows 8.1, Windows 10, Windows 11, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2022

Operating systems supported by backup agent version 4 and older

Windows Vista (with all windows updates installed), Windows Server 2008 (with all windows updates installed), Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 7, Windows 8, Small Business Server 2011

Filesystem:

IDrive® BMR supports backup exclusively from NTFS-formatted volumes and offers limited backup support for ReFS-formatted volumes, specifically for ReFS versions 2.0 and above.

Note: Support for ReFS backups is available starting from version 5.1.0.

Disk Partition Style:

MBR, GPT

Note:
  1. Backup and restore of dynamic (simple, mirrored, spanned, striped), logical, and Microsoft storage space (Raid-5 with resiliency type-parity) is supported for 8.4.0 and above. However, bare-metal recovery of dynamic OS disk with GPT partition is not supported.
    (In case you have upgraded to version 8.4.0 or above, make sure to install the latest backup agent that supports the latest backup features and perform at the least one image backup. If you attempt restoring exclusively from older versions where the OS disk is dynamic, you may have OS boot issues. Similarly, use the updated WinRE Recovery Media Builder to create and upload a new WinRE recovery media to the BMR device.)
  2. The CBT feature (via backup agent version 4 and older) is not supported for certain older operating systems such as Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, and the 32-bit version of both Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008R2.
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System Requirements

Operating Systems:

Windows Server 2022, Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows 11, Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7

Hardware Requirements:

USB drive with a minimum of 4 GB storage - to create USB recovery media

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System Requirements

Hardware Requirements:

  • Ensure that the drives on your target computer are healthy (run SMART checks on the drives if necessary).
  • Target computer must be bootable from a USB storage device.
  • The BMR device and the target computer should be inside the same LAN.
  • Target computer should have wired network connection to the LAN (DHCP is recommended).
  • If the target computer has hardware RAID, it should be configured before initiating the restore process.
Note:
  1. Hardware RAID support is available for most of the available RAID controllers. Refer Debian's certified list of hardware for more information.
  2. Bare-metal restore is not supported on software RAID, BiosRAID and FakeRAID.