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How to create LiveCd for bare metal recovery/restore of SelfImage & MacRium backup
Hi,
I refer to
www.thefreecountry.com/utilities/backupandimage.shtml
I'm using SelfImage & MacRium Reflect to take backup but have
been searching / googling high & low to find the information on
how to create bootable LiveCD which can be used to do restore
/recovery of a crashed hard disk (& replaced by new disk by
hardware vendor).
Appreciate if anyone can provide the steps (step by step) or
point me to a helpful link/url
If the size/capacity of the new disk is larger than the replaced
one, would the restore work? Do we need capture the partition
sizing somewhere or the sizing is stored by SelfImage somewhere?
I refer to
www.thefreecountry.com/utilities/backupandimage.shtml
I'm using SelfImage & MacRium Reflect to take backup but have
been searching / googling high & low to find the information on
how to create bootable LiveCD which can be used to do restore
/recovery of a crashed hard disk (& replaced by new disk by
hardware vendor).
Appreciate if anyone can provide the steps (step by step) or
point me to a helpful link/url
If the size/capacity of the new disk is larger than the replaced
one, would the restore work? Do we need capture the partition
sizing somewhere or the sizing is stored by SelfImage somewhere?
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Hi SysExp,
Thanks very much.
I don't have Ghost licence but I have Acronis, so I'm still trying to figure
out after booting up, what's the Acronis image that I need to copy over
to the CD to do this. Do you have any idea?
Also for, network boot Universal TCP/IP Network Bootdisk is a DOS bootdisk,
http://www.netbootdisk.com/
So after bootup, we just use MSDOS command "net use drive: \\fileserver\sharename ?
Thanks very much.
I don't have Ghost licence but I have Acronis, so I'm still trying to figure
out after booting up, what's the Acronis image that I need to copy over
to the CD to do this. Do you have any idea?
Also for, network boot Universal TCP/IP Network Bootdisk is a DOS bootdisk,
http://www.netbootdisk.com/
So after bootup, we just use MSDOS command "net use drive: \\fileserver\sharename ?
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Just one last question :
I've finally got an Acronis boot cd. Good thing about this Acronis CD is it
has all the NIC drivers of our servers, could backup/read from a USB
external disk or burn to local DVD (but not a USB DVD drive).
Since I dont have enough licences for all our Windows servers, is it possible
for me to
restore SelfImage backups after booting up using Acronis boot CD
(don't want to struggle to build another LiveCD specially for SelfImage).
Acronis TrueImage Enterprise Echo Server boot CD has one "Windows"
option : haven't try it but is this to boot up a mini "Windows" in the RAM?
I've finally got an Acronis boot cd. Good thing about this Acronis CD is it
has all the NIC drivers of our servers, could backup/read from a USB
external disk or burn to local DVD (but not a USB DVD drive).
Since I dont have enough licences for all our Windows servers, is it possible
for me to
restore SelfImage backups after booting up using Acronis boot CD
(don't want to struggle to build another LiveCD specially for SelfImage).
Acronis TrueImage Enterprise Echo Server boot CD has one "Windows"
option : haven't try it but is this to boot up a mini "Windows" in the RAM?
ASKER
I've taken a look : I've used Norton Ghost before but the problem with Ghost
boot CD/floppy has always been trying to get the NIC configured. A friend
has managed to give me one CD that detects/load the driver for USB.
Thanks for clarifying the doubt on the disk sizing : that clears one doubt.
The doubt I still have with Macrium & Acronis is how to get a bootable
LiveCD that would boot up such that
- I could remote mount a share (SMB?) & restore from the Windows file share
(or Samba/NFS in the case of Linux box that I'm recovering)
Or
-read from USB port
Acronis "User Guide" (I just got a copy from my manager) mention about
building a bootable CD but not quite mention anything about the file share
/NFS/USB portion.
I attached Acronis User Guide :
I was also searching the attached Guide on Linux installation in this Guide : if you
figure it out, perhaps can extract that portion of the guide but I probably am missing
something? Or it's expecting the DVD to be so user-friendly that I should figure it out
AcroTrueImageInstallGde.pdf