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

Bare metal restore (BMR) is a method to recover an entire Rocky Linux server, including its operating system, applications, and data, onto new hardware. This process is vital for disaster recovery because it allows you to bring your Rocky Linux server back online quickly after hardware failure or data loss. With BMR, you can restore everything from scratch without needing the original environment.

Vinchin’s BMR solution supports P2P (physical-to-physical) migration for Rocky Linux servers. This means you can move your Rocky Linux system from one physical machine to another with ease. It’s perfect for upgrading hardware or recovering from unexpected downtime. Vinchin makes the process simple and reliable so your business stays up and running.

How to use Vinchin to perform bare metal restore of Rocky Linux Server?

Vinchin supports bare metal restore of Rocky Linux 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 Rocky Linux server in 4 steps:

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

Step 2. Select the target server as destination

Step 3. Select the strategies

Step 4. Submit the job

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