How to Use Live CD as a Linux Backup Server

You can use a live CD as a linux backup server.

Follow these steps:

  1. Create a live CD from your Linux backup server.

    To create the live CD, from home page

    • Click Restore, Bare Metal Recovery (BMR).
    • From the Restore Wizard - BMR, click the link Click here to download Live CD, and save as your live CD.
  2. Start a Virtual machine or Physical machine with the live CD.

    Note: We recommend 4GB memory for this machine.

    When machine is started with live CD, you can view the following message:

    Use the following URL to access and manage this Arcserve UDP Agent (Linux): https://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8014.

    xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx refers to the current URL that the machine is using.

  3. Enter the URL https://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8014 into your browser.
  4. The Linux backup server home page appears.
  5. Use the Linux backup server functions to perform a job.

    For example: click Restore, Restore File, then find the backup session location, and perform the file level restore job.