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Create and Verify the CentOS-based Live CD

You can use this Live CD to boot a BMR target machine and then run the BMR job. The following files are used to create the CentOS-based Live CD:

makelivecd.centos

A script used to remaster the CentOS Live CD.

CentOS-7-x86_64-LiveGNOME.ISO

A CentOS Live CD ISO image. The image can be downloaded from the CentOS website.

Important! When creating a bootable Live CD for CentOS 7, download and use the CentOS-7-x86_64-LiveGNOME.ISO image instead of CentOS-7-x86_64-LiveCD.ISO from the Cent OS website.

The recovery point that is restored does not contain device driver for target BMR machine’s storage system. Arcserve UDP Agent (Linux) blocks such BMR job at an early stage.

Follow these steps:

1. Prepare the device drivers (*.ko and *.rpm files) for CentOS and store them in a folder.

   Example: Store the device drivers in the /tmp/drivers folder.

   Note: You must provide the device driver that matches the kernel version of the CentOS Live CD.

2. Access the CentOS website and download the 64-bit CentOS 7.0 or later Live CD to the /tmp folder on the Backup Server.

   The CentOS-7-x86_64-LiveGNOME.ISO file is downloaded.

3. Navigate to the bin folder (/opt/Arcserve/d2dserver/bin) and run the following command:

   makelivecd.centos <full_path_to_CentOS_live_cd> [path_where_device_drivers_are_stored]
   

   Example: ./makelivecd.centos <full_path_to_CentOS_live_cd> /tmp/drivers

   The script creates the Arcserve Unified Data Protection Agent for Linux Live CD based on CentOS and stores the ISO image file at the following location:

   /opt/Arcserve/d2dserver/packages/CentOS-LiveCD-for-UDP_Agent_Linux.iso
   

4. Navigate to the packages folder and verify that the CentOS-LiveCD-for-UDP_Agent_Linux.iso file is included in the folder.

   The CentOS-based Live CD is created and verified.

You have successfully created a CentOS-based Live CD.