Best way for bare metal restore on Linux

[andrewhunt81]

I’ve been testing with the latest version (2.0.3) of urbackup and everything is working nicely. I have the server installed on a linux server (in a container actually). I have image backups happpening monthly and file backups weekly on my windows machines. I have file backups on my other linux machines (which use btrfs so snapshots work). I’ve tested restoring my windows machines onto bare metal successfully.

However, I would like to be able to restore my linux machines as smoothly as windows. File restores are simple but I’m struggling with a simple process to restore a linux machine to bare metal. My first thought is to install linux onto the empty machine, add the urbackup client and restore all the files over top of the existing system.

Any thoughts or guidance will be appreciated.

…Andrew

[uroni]

@andrewhunt81

My first thought is to install linux onto the empty machine, add the urbackup client and restore all the files over top of the existing system.

That should work. Make sure to use the Linux client from the web interface for the client to be restored. That one will include the necessary information to access and restore the file backups.

We also wanted to look into REAR integration and restore CD integration might be possible, but difficult, as well.

[ChojinDSL]

I’m currently trying to something similar to this.

I’ve booted the equivalent of a Rescue CD. My linux client’s Harddrive is mounted in a subdirectory.

I would like to install the urbackup client from the web interface and then restore into that subdirectory.

Only problem is, if I try to run “urbackupclientctl browse”
then I get “No file backup access tokens found. Did you run a file backup yet?”

If make a small incremental backup, then browse will only list that one incremental backup, not all the previous ones before it.

How can I get this to work properly?

[orogor]

Hello

Have a look here:

Custom scripts to backup to named pipe or stdout (for dbump, fsdump)

Just tested, it s triggered with any backup (full and inc). For large dataset, it s problematic, i just tried with my zabbix database and it s backuping 24h/24 I wanted to do it with my workstation, that i need to move to a new computer, but i’d have the same problem. I maybe overedid it with the resquests before, but could it be possible to have the scripts managed as a component? So that we can enable them for disable them for the virtual clients With the possibility to choose which compo…

urbackup allow to capture the stdout of any app as data to backup, so it could be zfs send , or dd (but that d be not very safe).

Basically, the same use case, you could dump your fs using a yourbackup script and then restore it.
If there s no support from the livecd, you could use sshfs or whatever to restore the fs by browsing the server.