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SEP sesam Linux BSR Restore
Introduction
This documentation explains the procedure for a Client Disaster Recovery with SEP sesam Linux BSR.
This manual shows the restore of a SUSE Linux Enterprise System (32 bit).
The restore of a Linux client-system is done with the SEP sesam Linux BSR Live-CD, which includes a sesam Client. After booting the Live-CD, the client must be added to the SEP sesam Server and the restore of a lost system is done through a regular restore on the SEP sesam Server.
Supported Distributions and File systems
Distributions
- SLES 10
- SLES 11
- RHEL 5
- Debian
Filesystems
- reiserfs
- ext2
- ext3
- xfs
System requirements
- SEP sesam Server Version ≥ 3.6.4.6
- SEP sesam Client Version ≥ 3.6.4.6
- SEP sesam BSR CD Image for the used architecture, based on SLES 11. (SLES 11, Download)
- Identical System for the Restore.
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The hard disk of the target system must have equal or greater size than the original systems hard disk. |
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The Systems fstab and grub/menu.lst should not refer to the unique disk identifier (/dev/disk/by-id/) but to real device names (/dev/sdaX) |
SAN Devices
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If the backed up system was attached to a SAN infrastructure, the layout of the san devices is also saved during the backup. This means, during restore the SEP sesam Client may also repartition and reformat SAN devices which are visible from the booted live system. |
Setup of the Linux BSR Backup
After the setup of the SEP sesam Client on a system which should be backed up using BSR the following steps have to be performed:
- Create a "disk_info" Backup-Source.
This backup source saves the system partition layout and existing file systems (will also include LVM and SoftRaid information):
- Create a backup task which has an "all" backup source in order to backup the real
data from the system:
How to do a restore of a Linux client system
Boot from SEP sesam BSR Live CD
Bootmenu
After booting from the Live-CDROM a boot menu will be shown. Choose SEP sesam Live client nox in order to boot the SLES11 Live System:
Network configuration
During booting the SLES11 YAST Menu will pop up. There the detected network devices can be configured on the new system. After the network configuration the SEP sesam client will be installed automatically into the Live-CD's Ramdisk.
This may take some time!
In this example, the Live-CD Client will be configured as "recover.sep.de", using DHCP:
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It is also possible to use a static IP-address instead of DHCP. |
End of live-cd boot
After successful configuration and boot a regular Linux shell appears:
During this step it is also possible to do further configurations on the Live-CD system and also do some diagnosis in order to ensure the system is set up properly. Tools like "ping" and "nslookup" or "host" are available on this live-CD image.
In order to start a root shell use "su" to switch to the root user:
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Root PW: recover |
Check if the SEP sesam client is running correctly:
Access live-cd by ssh
It is also possible to access the booted Live-CD image remote by using SSH. The password for the root user is "recover".
Adding the client system to the SEP sesam Server
In order to perform a restore onto the system which has been booted from the Live-CD, you have to add the system to the SEP sesam Server.
The connection between SEP sesam Client and Server has to be successful. If there are errors while adding the client please make sure to check the regular configuration parameters (network, dns, ping, reverse dns lookup etc).
Performing the restore through SEP sesam
The restore is split into the following parts:
- Restore of "disk_info" save-set which partitions the hard-disk.
- Restore of the "all" save-set and installation of the bootloader.
Restore of disk_info partition layout
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In this example the restore always goes to the system "recover" (the Live CD-system) not the original one. |
Restore
Check if the restore of disk_info was successful
After a successful restore you may want to check if the restore was successful. The restore will create the partition layout of the original system and format its partitions.
After formatting the partitions it continues to mount them to /mnt/disk/ on the Live-CD image.
You can check if this procedure was successful by looking at the restore protocol. Search for the following part:
In this example our original system had one partition using an ext3 file
system which was created, formatted and mounted to /mnt/disk:
Restore of the "all" save-set
If the repartitioning of the disk_info restore was successful, the real data of the system (from the configured "all" Backup Task") has to be restored. It is essential that the restore target is set to "/mnt/disk/" otherwise the restore will write all data to the Ramdisk of the Live-CD:
Reboot of the system
After a successful restore of the "all" saveset, the system can be restarted with the recovered client.
Troubleshooting
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If the restore of a system runs into a virtual machine, the network interface has to be reconfigured, because the MAC address will be different. |
The following RAID Controller is currently not supported by the SEP Appliance based on SLES 11:
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