I backed up a mail server (bare metal recovery) and want to test it on a test machine. I have one set up, and have started my test machine up from the Win2008 disc and found how to start a recovery. I have located the backup image from the network share, and it notes that the computer is, in fact, the server that I backed up. When I select the image and hit Next, I can see which drives are in the backup, etc etc. Click, Next. I do not have the option to not format and re-partition disks, which is fine since the disk will have to be re-partitioned for the data. When I click next, it gives the date and time, the computer name, and the drives to restore. However, under Computer it says the server that I did a backup of. I understand that that should be there, but is it going to try to perform a restore on that server, or is it just going to rename my test server to that name? I've never worked with this bare metal recovery before, so I don't know what I'm supposed to be necessarily doing.
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