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hdablin
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10 years ago

Disaster recovery Linux server with Backup Exec

Hello!

My customer has a Linux server (Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.x) with Asterisk VoIP system configured. He has a backup made with Backup Exec 2014. How can he restore the complete system in case of a disaster?

I know that we can restore files on Linux, but the customer doesn't want file-level restore, he wants a simple and streamlined process that allow him to bring the server back to life without much effort.

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  • RahulG's avatar
    RahulG
    10 years ago

    Backup Exec does not protect the complete Linux Operating System. It just protects the files and folders (directories) on the volumes.

    So you will have to re-install the Linux OS and then restore the Linux volumes that are backed up.

    Did you took the backup of oracle using the Oracle agent  ?

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  • RahulG's avatar
    RahulG
    Level 6
    10 years ago

    Backup Exec does not protect the complete Linux Operating System. It just protects the files and folders (directories) on the volumes.

    So you will have to re-install the Linux OS and then restore the Linux volumes that are backed up.

    Did you took the backup of oracle using the Oracle agent  ?

  • pkh's avatar
    pkh
    Moderator
    10 years ago

    The easiest way to backup and restore a Linux server would be to put it in a VM.  However, you would need to buy a BE hypervisor agent licence.

    Other than that, you would have to restore the OS and then the files.  There is no way around this.