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Preparing server for bare metal restore using R1Soft Live Rescue CD
Written by wiredgorilla   
Saturday, 28 June 2008

Follow these steps to prepare a system for a bare metal restore. 

1. Put the R1Soft Live Rescue CD into the machine you are going to restore to, and boot.

    Press enter at the splash screen.

2. Once you are logged in, type

    netconfig

   and follow the prompts to configure the network settings. Start SSH if you need to access the machine remotely.

3. Type ping google.com to test the network connectivity.

4. To simplify things, its usually a good idea to check if there are any existing partitions on the drives you are restoring to. To do so, type

fdisk -l

to obtain a list of hard drives. Take note of the drive labels e.g. /dev/sda.

Then type

cfdisk /disk/label

to access the partition table of that specific disk. From here you can delete all existing partitions until there is only free space, and then quit the program.

5. The machine itself is now ready to be restored to;

  Login to the R1Soft Backup Server web interface, click on the host you want to restore, click on the Backup & Restore tab,  and then click on Bare Metal Restore.

 Now just follow the prompts to restore the machine.

6. Once the restore is completed, you will need to unplug the USB CD drive and make sure the boot order in the BIOS is set to the main hard drive.





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