Starting A New Server; Repairing Startup Problems; Performing A Bare Metal Restore For A Linux Machine - Dell PowerVault DL4000 User Manual

Starting A New Server

To start a new server:
1. Navigate back to the new server, and, in the AppAssure Universal Recovery Console interface, select Reboot to
start the machine.
2. Specify to start Windows normally.
3. Log on to the machine.
The system is restored to its state prior to the bare metal restore.

Repairing Startup Problems

To repair startup problems, if you encounter problems when starting from a new restore, select the Repair Boot
Problems option in the Driver Injection window of the AppAssure Universal Recovery Console to automatically fix the
startup parameters.

Performing A Bare Metal Restore For A Linux Machine

In AppAssure 5 you can perform a Bare Metal Restore (BMR) for a Linux machine including rollback of the system
volume. Using the AppAssure command line utility, aamount, rollback to the boot volume base image. Before you can
perform a BMR for a Linux machine, you first need to do the following:
• Obtain a BMR Live CD file from AppAssure support, which includes a bootable version of Linux for you.
• Create a new disk partition, if needed, to contain the rollback data. For example, use the fdisk command line
utility to partition the disk.
• If the volume you want to rollback is the system volume, you need to ensure that the system volume is not
mounted.
To perform a bare metal restore for a Linux machine:
1. Using the Live CD file you receive from AppAssure, boot up the Linux machine and open a Terminal window.
2. If needed, create a new disk partition, for example, by running the fdisk command as root, and make this
partition bootable by using the a command.
3. Run the AppAssure aamount utility as root, for example:
sudo aamount
4. At the AppAssure mount prompt, enter the following command to list the protected machines:
lm
5. When prompted, enter the IP address or hostname of your AppAssure Core server.
6. Enter the logon credentials, that is, the username and password, for this server.
A list is displayed showing the machines protected by this AppAssure server. It lists the machines found by line
item number, host/IP address, and an ID number for the machine (for example:
293cc667-44b4-48ab-91d8-44bc74252a4f).
7. Enter the following command to list the currently mounted recovery points for the machine you wish to restore:
lr <machine_line_item_number>
NOTE: You can also enter the machine ID number in this command instead of the line item number.
A list is displayed that shows the base and incremental recovery points for that machine. This list includes a line
item number, date/timestamp, location of volume, size of recovery point, and an ID number for the volume that
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