Click ‘Downloads’ > ‘Backup Agent’ > ‘EXE’ to download the backup agent.

Ensure all your work is saved and close any running application before you install the agent. This is crucial for ensuring fast incremental backup using the changed block tracking driver. To complete the installation process, you will be required to reboot your system. Note: On successful installation, the installer will create an inbound port-allow rule for the IDrive BMR device on Windows Firewall.

Port 35623 (for commands and image backups).

Port 35622 (for UDP broadcasts for discovery).

Use the network ports listed below to ensure connectivity between all active firewalls of your client/VM and the IDrive BMR device: Similarly, use the updated WinRE Recovery Media Builder to create and upload a new WinRE recovery media to the BMR device.).Ģ) The CBT feature 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. If you attempt restoring exclusively from older versions where the OS disk is dynamic, you may have OS boot issues. (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 least one image backup. However, bare-metal recovery of dynamic OS disk with GPT partition is not supported. You can still recover data from these backed up volumes by using the ' File Restore' option.ġ) 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 Restore of these volumes is not supported.

You can backup dynamic or logical volumes in MBR disk.

The volumes chosen for backup must be internally-connected local hard drives and not network-attached storage devices, mapped drives, or removable drives.

The client and virtual machines must use the NTFS file system.

A minimum of 1 GB of RAM is required for installing the agent and performing backups.

Every volume chosen for backup must have at least 15% free space.

*The agent installed on certain older operating systems such as Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, and the 32-bit version of both Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008R2 do not have Changed Block Tracking driver, therefore, the incremental backups on these operating systems will be relatively slower. Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista Operating systems compatible with the BMR backup agent IDrive BMR offers agentless backup for VMware machines. Note: Backup agent installation is only required for physical machines.

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