{"id":9141,"date":"2017-08-18T16:06:38","date_gmt":"2017-08-18T06:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/?p=9141"},"modified":"2025-06-26T06:37:28","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T06:37:28","slug":"bootable-backups-making-disaster-recovery-a-breeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/bootable-backups-making-disaster-recovery-a-breeze","title":{"rendered":"Bootable Backups: Making Disaster Recovery a Breeze"},"content":{"rendered":"

Your hardware or OS fails, and your server won’t even start itself.\u00a0<\/strong>Everyone’s complaining, and you’re under the pump. If only you could plug in an external drive, click your mouse a few times, and the whole thing was magically fixed.<\/p>\n

Well, that’s exactly what our Bootable Backups let you do. So long as you make one ahead of time, even a major outage can be a breeze. Plus, being able to solve outages so easily will make you look seriously cool.<\/p>\n

Read this article to learn more about Bootable Backups and how to make one.<\/p>\n

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What is a Bootable Backup?<\/h1>\n

Traditionally, you have two pieces of media when you’re performing a bare metal recovery: you’ve got the device that acts as your boot disk and launches you into the recovery environment, and another with your image backups on it.<\/p>\n

With BackupAssist, you can create an all-in-one disk called a Bootable Backup. Put simply, it combines your backup storage and boot media. Why use two disks when you can use one, right?<\/p>\n

Of course, with BackupAssist, you can still create standalone bootable media if you want to do things the old fashioned way.<\/p>\n

Creating a Bootable Backup<\/h1>\n

Firstly, you can only create a bootable backup on an external USB hard disk. And secondly, it’s very simple to do.<\/p>\n