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Typically, the backed up data includes the necessary operating system, [[Computer application|applications]] and data components to rebuild or restore the backed up system to an entirely separate piece of hardware. In some configurations, the hardware receiving the restore needs to have an identical configuration to the hardware that was the source of the backup, although virtualization techniques and careful planning can enable a bare-metal restore to a hardware configuration different from the original.

Disk imaging applications such as [[CBMR (Cristie Bare Machine Recovery)]], [[Unitrends Bare Metal Recovery)][http://www.unitrends.com Unitrends]& [http://www.sentralsystems.com Sentral Systems],[[Acronis True Image]], [[Remote Installation Services|RIS]] or [[Ghost (software)|Norton Ghost]] enable bare-metal restores by storing copies (images) of the entire contents of hard disks to networked or other external storage, and then writing those images to other physical disks. The disk image application itself can include an entire operating system, bootable from a live CD or network file server, which contains all the required application code to create and restore the disk images.

[[Dr. Steve Schwartz]], founder of [[Unitrends]], was the initial developer of bare-metal restore.