Creating hot bare metal Mac OS X boot media
To recover a protected system, a hot bare metal USB drive or DVD must be created on the computer being protected. A few things to keep in mind:
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The hot bare metal media should be tested after creation to make sure it will work when a system needs to be restored. The media can be tested by selecting the Test option on the Mac OS X Hot Bare Metal v.60 interface. See Mac OS X hot bare metal restore for accessing this menu. |
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A full backup of the client is required prior to doing a hot bare metal restore. Full backups can be performed from the appliance UI or from the backup menu. |
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The hot bare metal media cannot be created after a system crashes. |
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The computer’s (asset’s) hostname should be registered on the backup system. |
Use one of the following procedures to create the boot media:
To create the Mac OS X boot media for 10.10 and 10.11
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Place an empty 8GB or larger USB drive in the computer’s media drive. |
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Connect to the Mac asset by using a terminal emulator (such as PuTTY) and log in as user root or administrator. |
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Enter the working directory where the ISO file will be built. |
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Run the Bare Metal utility by entering mkbmcd from the location where the Mac agent is installed. Example commands are given here: |
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For Mac 10.10, the default agent location is /usr/bp. For an agent installed in that location, enter this command: |
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For Mac 10.11, the default agent location is /usr/loca/bp. For an agent installed in that location, enter this command: |
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When the ISO image is complete, the following message displays: |
The newly created iso image is present at the location.
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Determine the disk number of the USB drive by entering this command: |
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Enter the following command to burn the ISO image to the USB drive, where the X is the disk number of the USB drive: |
dd if=<image> of=/dev/rdiskX bs=1m
To create the Mac OS X boot media for 10.9 and earlier versions
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Place a blank DVD in the computer’s media drive. |
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Connect to the Mac asset by using a terminal emulator (such as PuTTY) and log in as user root or administrator. |
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Enter the working directory where the ISO file will be built. |
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Run the Bare Metal utility by entering mkbmcd from the location where the Mac agent is installed. For Mac 10.9 and earlier, the default agent location is /usr/bp. For an agent installed in that location, enter this command: |
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When the ISO image is complete, the following message displays: |
The newly created iso image is present at the location.
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Enter the following command to burn the ISO image to a disk: |
hdiutil burn /<path>/bm_<hostname>.iso.cdr