Launch an Instance Using the Arcserve UDP Agent Live CD

Before performing a BMR for Linux Instances in Amazon EC2, you need to launch a BMR target Instance using Arcserve UDP Agent Live CD. When the target BMR instance is ready, then you can get the IP address of the Instance and perform a BMR job with IP address.

Follow these steps:

1. Log into the EC2 management console with your account and select Launch Instance.
2. Select an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) in Community AMIs.

   You can search the Live CD AMI with Arcserve_UDP_Agent_Linux-LiveCD in Community AMIs.

   Notes:

   • If PVM is the backup source node that you want to restore, select Arcserve_UDP_Agent_Linux-LiveCD-PVM-UDP$version AMI to launch the instance.
   • If HVM or other target machine is the backup source node that you want to restore, select Arcserve_UDP_Agent_Linux-LiveCD-HVM-UDP$version AMI to launch the instance.
3. From Launch Instance Wizard, select the required Instance Type.
4. Configure the Instance details as you launch other Instances. For example: including the Network, Subnet, Auto-assign Public IP or not, and so on.
5. Add storage for the Instance, using the following steps:
   1. Get the disk information including the disk number and the disk size of the backup source node that you want to restore. You can get the disk information when you select a recovery point in the Restore wizard to perform a BMR job.
   2. Extend the root volume size to match the root disk size of the backup source node. You can add other disks, if the backup source node has more disks.
6. Add tags for the BMR target Instance.
7. Configure the security group for the BMR target instance, using the following steps:
   1. Create a new security group for SSH Type.
   2. To make the BMR target instance safer, select the Custom mode for the source that will determine the traffic to reach the BMR target instance in the newly created rule. Specify the custom source with the CIDR format so that the BMR target instance is accessible to the Arcserve UDP Agent for Linux Server but not accessible to other internet machines.
   3. For example, if the IP of the Arcserve UDP Agent for Linux Server is 172.31.X.X, specify the source as 172.31.0.0/16 or 172.0.0.0/8.
8. Review instance details and then click Launch.
9. The Select an existing key pair or create a new pair dialog is displayed.
9. From the dialog, select the Proceed without a key pair option, and click Launch Instances.
10. Acquire the private IP in the instance description, when the BMR target instance is ready to use.

The IP address of the target machine is acquired.

Important! Maintain a record of this IP address as it is used in the Restore Wizard when you have to specify the BMR target instance details.

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