How to Perform SUSE P2P Migration with Vinchin Backup & Recovery?

When you need to move a complete SUSE server from one physical machine to another, P2P (physical-to-physical) migration is the answer. This process lets you restore everything—your operating system, applications, settings, and data—onto new hardware so your SUSE server runs just like before.

P2P migration is vital for disaster recovery, hardware upgrades, or when replacing aging servers. With Vinchin’s bare metal restore feature, you can quickly recover from failures or switch to new machines with matching hardware. This ensures your SUSE server is back online fast and with minimal hassle.

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

Vinchin supports bare metal restore of SUSE 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 SUSE server in 4 steps:

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

Step 2. Select the target server as destination

Step 3. Select the strategies

Step 4. Submit the job

Try out Vinchin’s free trial for P2P migration on your SUSE servers today! Download our full-featured trial version and get 60 days of unrestricted access. Our expert team will support you every step of the way and help ensure your migrations are smooth and successful.