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Restoring Images from PXE

Restoring Images from PXE

This is a manual to boot the restore CD from your network (PXE).

 

Prerequisites:

 

Steps:

  1. Setup a TFTP server with appropriate DHCP server (see above PXELinux manual)
  2. Unzip the UrBackup-Live-Restore ISO in a directory called urbackup (using e.g. 7zip)
  3. Edit your pxelinux.cfg/default file as below (replace the ip address of the server) :

LABEL UrBackup Restore
kernel urbackup/live/vmlinuz
append initrd=urbackup/live/initrd.img boot=live config username=urbackup toram noswap fetch=tftp://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/urbackup/live/filesystem.squashfs

 

With UrBackup Restore 1.1.1 you can also use hostnames and load the filesystem from a HTTP server:

LABEL UrBackup Restore
kernel urbackup/live/vmlinuz
append initrd=urbackup/live/initrd.img boot=live config username=urbackup toram noswap fetch=http://SERVERNAME/urbackup/live/filesystem.squashfs

 

Boot your client via PXE and the restore should run.

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