Dell DL1000 User Manual

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8. Upon a successful rollback, the aamount utility automatically mounts and reattach the kernelmodule to the rolled back volume if the target was previously protected and mounted. If not, mountthe rollback volume to the local disk and then verify that the files are restored.For example, you can use the sudo mount command and then the ls command.Launching Bare Metal Restore for Windows machinesAppAssure provides the ability to perform a Bare Metal Restore (BMR) for your Windows machineswhether the hardware is similar or dissimilar. This process encompasses creating a boot CD image,burning the image to disk, booting up the target server from disk, connecting to the recovery consoleinstance, mapping volumes, initiating the recovery, and then monitoring the process. After the bare metalrestore is complete, you can continue with the task of loading the operating system and the softwareapplications on the restored server, followed by your unique settings and configuration.Other circumstances in which you may choose to perform a bare metal restore include hardwareupgrade or server replacement.BMR functionality is also supported for your protected Linux machines using the command-line aamountutility. For more information, see Launching A Bare Metal Restore For A Linux Machine.Roadmap for performing a Bare Metal Restore for a Windows machineTo perform a BMR for a Windows machine:1. Create a boot CD.2. Burn the image to disk.3. Boot the target server from the boot CD.4. Connect to the recovery disk.5. Map the volumes.6. Initiate the recovery.7. Monitor the progress.Creating a bootable CD ISO imageTo perform a BMR for a Windows machine, you must create a bootable CD/ISO image in the CoreConsole, which contains the AppAssure Universal Recovery Console interface. The AppAssure UniversalRecovery Console is an environment used to restore the system drive or the entire server directly fromthe AppAssure Core.The ISO image that you create is tailored to the machine being restored; therefore, it must contain thecorrect network and mass storage drivers. If you anticipate that you will be restoring to differenthardware from the machine on which you are creating the boot CD, you must include storage controllerand other drivers in the boot CD see Injecting Drivers in a Boot CD.NOTE: The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is an international body ofrepresentatives from various national organizations who determine and set file system standards.The ISO 9660 is a file system standard that is used for optical disk media for the exchange of data. Itsupports various operating systems, such as Windows. 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.73