How to Perform openSUSE Bare Metal Restore/P2P Migration with Vinchin Backup & Recovery?

Bare metal restore (BMR) lets you recover an entire openSUSE server—including the OS, apps, settings, and data—onto new hardware or a blank machine. This process is vital for openSUSE users who need to recover from hardware failure, major software issues, or disasters. With BMR, your restored server boots and runs just like the original.

Vinchin’s bare metal restore also supports P2P (physical-to-physical) migration for openSUSE servers. This means you can move your complete system from one physical openSUSE server to another with matching hardware. Whether you’re recovering from downtime or upgrading to new machines, Vinchin makes it easy and reliable to get your openSUSE server running again fast.

How to use Vinchin to perform bare metal restore of openSUSE Server?

Vinchin supports bare metal restore of openSUSE server in simple steps but you should have a backup of it created by Vinchin before.

Make sure the hardware configurations should be the same as the original server, including mainboard, CPU, RAM disks, etc.

Then you need to boot the server with LiveCD or WinPE ISO image provided by Vinchin, which can be download in Vinchin help center.

Finally, you can easily perform a bare metal restore of the openSUSE server in 4 steps:

Step 1. Select the backup data of openSUSE server in Vinchin Backup & Recovery

Step 2. Select the target server as destination

Step 3. Select the strategies

Step 4. Submit the job

Ready to try it yourself? Download our trial version today for a full-featured 60-day free trial. You’ll get expert support from our engineers during testing and migration so you can move your openSUSE servers with confidence—no hassle!