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Bare-Metal

Bare-metal refers to systems or recovery<\/a> processes that operate directly on the physical hardware without relying on an existing operating system. In the context of backups, bare-metal recovery<\/a> allows a complete system—including the operating system, applications, and data—to be restored quickly after a failure or cyber incident, ensuring minimal downtime and full system reconstruction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Bare-Metal

Bare-metal refers to systems or recovery processes that operate directly on the physical hardware without relying on an existing operating system. In the context of backups, bare-metal recovery allows a complete system\u2014including the operating system, applications, and data\u2014to be restored quickly after a failure or cyber incident, ensuring minimal downtime and full system reconstruction.<\/p>\n","related_terms":"","external_url":"","internal_reference_id":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steffiscloud.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/3655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steffiscloud.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steffiscloud.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/glossary"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steffiscloud.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.steffiscloud.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/3655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steffiscloud.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"glossary-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steffiscloud.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary-categories?post=3655"},{"taxonomy":"glossary-tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steffiscloud.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary-tags?post=3655"},{"taxonomy":"glossary-languages","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steffiscloud.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary-languages?post=3655"},{"taxonomy":"glossary-cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steffiscloud.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary-cat?post=3655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}