Image-Based Backup – One of the requests that kept coming up was the ability to restore the entire system.  This requirement was to not only backup and recover files but recover the entire server drive or drives to new same or different hardware.  This is called “bare-metal backup/restore” in the industry .  Using this method a system can backup on one platform type and restore to a completely different hardware and it WORKS!  No joke, server-2-laptop, laptop-2-server or any combination.   Including physical to virtual (P2V), V2P, V2V, ….