Use this procedure to manually initiate a bare metal restore of a Linux client if a problem prevents the normal procedures from being used.
1 Boot the Linux server from the boot CD. Upon completion of the Linux bare metal boot process, the Linux Bare Metal interface displays.
2 Run the Test utility from the Linux hot bare metal menu. This is important since the test utility not only checks the client, it also starts the network.
3 Mount file systems by selecting Utilities > Mount filesystems.
4 From the Unitrends interface, start the client restore by selecting your client in the Navigation pane and clicking Restore.
5 Choose the backup to be restored and click Next (Select Files/Items) below.
6 In the File Selection List, select all files.
7 Click Show Advanced Execution Options to open the form. Make sure that the Target Directory value is set to /tmp/root.mnt. This is the directory where the bare metal application has mounted the root file system on the client.
8 Click Restore to initiate the restore. An alert displays warning you that restoring /boot will overwrite boot loader files. Click Yes to continue.
9 Select Settings > System Monitoring > Jobs to view the progress of the restore.