With R1Soft backup technology, you can restore servers directly from disk-based backup. There is no need to first partition your drive and re-install the operating system. Quick Search. If you rent a server at a remote data center, they may have already worked through problems with broken hardware or Linux Device Drivers before you get your server. Do not assume that because you rent a Centos dedicated server that it is "vanilla" Centos. It is likely it may have some special boot options to get it to run on some problematic hardware, or a tweak for some init scripts to load a Device Driver that would not play properly.
The Boot CD does not know about all of these tweaks and may need additional settings. If our Boot CD does not support your hardware, you may need to install additional drivers supplied by your Linux hardware or software vendor when Linux is already booted from CD.
Live CD is based on Debian, so you can use use Debian apt-get command to install prepackaged drivers or other software. Make sure you know how to connect to your network.
Also, note special accommodations used for a particular NIC adapter such as forcing a switch port to full duplex to avoid SLOW transfers. This article will help you perform a Bare Metal restore of your server. Please note that to begin this process you will need the server root login details and the login information for your R1Sort management portal. If you are using Backup Protection, which is based upon R1Soft, you won't have access to login to the R1Soft portal directly and should contact TB Technical Support to run a bare metal restore.
This process will be broken up into three main sections. The second is setting up the network once in the live CD. Last is actually starting the restore from your CDP website. Once the server is booted from the Live CD, you must first connect the server to the public network and obtain a key from the R1Soft CDP server, before you can start the restore. The following steps will walk you through this process.
Before you begin, you will want to change to the root account on the live CD. You can do this by running the following command:. The article is meant to be a proof of concept. The methods outlined can be used to create LiveCDs with other Linux distros. Creating a LiveCD is not as daunting a task as many people think.
After booting, you have to provide some writable disk space at least 10 gigabytes. If you do not have a hard disk, you can use USB flash drive or network share. After you have configured writable space, install development tools GNU C compiler, make, etc. So do not use yum for installing kernel sources and other tools, because yum will try to upgrade your kernel to a newer version.
You should download all rpms directly from one of CentOS mirrors:. At the time of writing this the URL was as follows:.
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