User guide

172 | Protecting Workstations and Servers
 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 182.
 You can monitor the progress of your restore. See “Viewing the Recovery
Progress” on page 169.
 Once completed, you can start the restored server. See “Starting a Restored
Target Server” on page 169.
 Troubleshoot the BMR process. See “Troubleshooting Connections to the
Universal Recovery Console” on page 170 and “Repairing Startup Problems” on
page 170.
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
AppAssure 5 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
AppAssure 5 Deployment Guide.
 Live DVD boot image. Obtain the Linux Live DVD ISO image, which includes a
bootable version of Linux. Download it from the license portal at https://
licenseportal.com. If you have any issues downloading the Live DVD, contact Dell
AppAssure 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.
 Rollback path. Identify the path for the rollback, 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.