Acronis Backup for Linux Server - User Guide - Manual (Page 150)

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9 Bootable media
Bootable media
Bootable media is physical media (CD, DVD, USB flash drive or other removable media supported by
a machine BIOS as a boot device) that boots on any PC-compatible machine and enables you to run
Acronis Backup Agent in a bootable environment based on Linux kernel, without the help of an
operating system. The agent can boot and perform operations on any PC-compatible hardware,
including bare metal and machines with corrupted or non-supported file systems.
Bootable media is most often used to:
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recover an operating system that cannot start
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access and back up the data that has survived in a corrupted system
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deploy an operating system on bare metal
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create basic or dynamic volumes on bare metal
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back up sector-by-sector a disk with an unsupported file system
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back up offline any data that cannot be backed up online because of restricted access, being
permanently locked by the running applications or for any other reason.
A machine can be booted into the above environments either with physical media, or using the
network boot from Acronis PXE Server. This server with uploaded bootable components can be
thought of as a kind of bootable media too. You can create bootable media or configure the PXE
server using the same wizard.
9.1 Linux-based bootable media
To create a Linux-based bootable media
1. Start the Bootable Media Builder either from the management console, by selecting Tools >
Create Bootable Media, or as a separate component.
2. Select Bootable media type: Default (Linux-based media).
Select the way volumes and network resources will be handled—called the media style:
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A media with Linux-style volume handling displays the volumes as, for example, hda1 and
sdb2. It tries to reconstruct MD devices and logical (LVM) volumes before starting a recovery.
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A media with Windows-style volume handling displays the volumes as, for example, C: and D:.
It provides access to dynamic (LDM) volumes.
3. Follow the wizard steps to specify the following:
a. [Optional] The parameters of the Linux kernel. Separate multiple parameters with spaces.
For example, to be able to select a display mode for the bootable agent each time the media
starts, type: vga=ask
For a list of parameters, see Kernel parameters (p. 151).
b. The Acronis bootable components to be placed on the media.
You can select 32-bit and/or 64-bit components. The 32-bit components can work on 64-bit
hardware. However, you need 64-bit components to boot a machine that uses Unified
Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI).