How to restore a bare metal machine from a RAW image

Restoring a bare-metal machine from a RAW image

Task

Restore a bare metal machine from a RAW image.

Solution

Acura provides customers a way to get the RAW image of a failover or replicated machine.


To recover the mashine using a RAW file, follow the steps below:

  1. Boot from any Linux Live CD.

  2. Verify that ssh service has started.

  3. Clone a disk using the command ssh user@device_ip_where_raw_file_ dd if=/<path_to_file> | dd of=/dev/sda status=progress

  4. After successful cloning, restart the machine and boot from the hard disk.


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