Users Guide

● Verifying a Bare Metal Restore. After starting the bare metal restore, you can verify and monitor your progress. See
Verifying the bare metal restore from the command line on page 261.
○ You can monitor the progress of your restore. See Viewing the recovery progress on page 260.
○ Once completed, you can start the restored server. See Starting a restored target server on page 261.
○ Troubleshoot the BMR process. See Troubleshooting connections to the Universal Recovery Console on page 261 and
Repairing boot problems on page 261.
Prerequisites for performing a bare metal restore for a Linux machine
Before you can begin the process of performing a bare metal restore for a Linux machine, you must ensure that the following
conditions and criteria exist:
● Backups of the machine you want to restore. You must have a functioning Rapid Recovery Core containing recovery points
of the protected server you want to restore.
● Hardware to restore (new or old, similar or dissimilar). The target machine must meet the installation requirements for an
agent; for details, see the Rapid Recovery Installation and Upgrade Guide.
● Live DVD boot image. Obtain the Linux Live DVD ISO image, which includes a bootable version of Linux. Download it from
the Dell Data Protection | Rapid Recovery License Portal at https://licenseportal.com. If you have any issues downloading
the Live DVD, contact Dell Rapid Recovery support.
● Image media and software. If using physical media, you must have a blank CD or DVD and disk burning software, or software
to create an ISO image.
● Compatible storage drivers and network adapter drivers. If restoring to dissimilar hardware, then you must have compatible
storage drivers and network adapter drivers for the target machine, including RAID, AHCI, and chipset drivers for the target
operating system, as appropriate.
● Storage space and partitions, as appropriate. Ensure that there is enough space on the hard drive to create destination
partitions on the target machine to contain the source volumes. Any destination partition should be at least as large as the
original source partition.
● Restore path. Identify the path for the restore, which is the path for the device file descriptor. To identify the path for the
device file descriptor, use the fdisk command from a terminal window.
Managing a Linux boot image
A bare metal restore for Linux requires a Live DVD boot image, which you download from the Dell Data Protection | Rapid
Recovery License Portal. You will use this image to start the destination Linux machine. Based on the specifics of your
environment you may need to transfer this image to physical media such as a CD or DVD. You must then virtually or physically
load the boot image, and start the Linux server from the boot image.
NOTE: The Live DVD was previously known as the Live CD.
Managing a Linux boot image is a step in Performing a bare metal restore for Linux machines on page 252.
You can perform the following tasks:
About the boot ISO image for Linux
The first step when performing a bare metal restore (BMR) for a Linux machine is to download the Linux Live DVD ISO image
from the Dell Data Protection | Rapid Recovery License Portal. The Live DVD functions with all Linux file systems supported by
Rapid Recovery, and includes a bootable version of Linux, a screen utility, and the Rapid Recovery Universal Recovery Console
(URC) interface. The Rapid Recovery Universal Recovery Console is an environment that is used to restore the system drive or
the entire server directly from the Rapid Recovery Core.
NOTE:
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is an international body of representatives from various
national organizations that sets file system standards. The ISO 9660 is a file system standard that is used for optical disk
media for the exchange of data and supports various operating systems. An ISO image is the archive file or disk image,
which contains data for every sector of the disk as well as the disk file system.
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