Restoring Data With A Rescue Cd - ACRONIS TRUE IMAGE 9.1 - FOR LINUX User Manual

Restoring the backup data under X Window System
You can stop the procedure by clicking Cancel. However, it is critical to note that the target
partition will be deleted and its space unallocated – the same result you will get if the
restoration is unsuccessful. To recover the "lost" partition, you will have to restore it from
the image again.
If you restore a system disk (partition), you might have to reactivate your boot manager.
Please consult your boot loader manual pages to find out the appropriate information.
In case the system disk (partition) is restored to identical hardware, the following steps would usually
help:
Boot the computer from the Linux installation CD
Enter rescue mode
Issue the following commands:
#mkdir /mnt/tmp
#mount /dev/hdXY /mnt/tmp (/dev/hdXY is the device, corresponding to root partition)
#chroot /mnt/tmp
If /boot is a separate partition, mount it with
#mount /dev/hdXZ /boot (/dev/hdXZ is the device, corresponding to boot partition)
Issue a command according to your loader type:
LILO:
#/sbin/lilo
GRUB:
#/sbin/grub-install /device_name (/device_name is hd: hda, hdal, hda2, sdal, sda2 etc)
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Restoring data with a rescue CD

To restore data from an archive, using a rescue CD of Acronis True Image Server for Linux,
you initially have to create such disk as described in
Insert the rescue CD and reboot (you might have to enable the CD bootup option in BIOS).
You will see a standard Acronis True Image Server for Linux main window (see
Main program interface under X Window System
The procedure of disk (partition) restoration from an image is almost identical to the one
described above. The only difference is that the Archive Selection window will list all local
disks (partitions) as unmounted:
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