Installing the stand-alone program for stand-alone restore

You can use BMC AMI Cloud full-volume dumps for stand-alone restore.

To prepare a bare-metal recovery restorable volume, you must install the stand-alone program on the server. The UI provides a special action to prepare a stand-alone copy from a regular full-volume dump. This topic describes the required steps for enabling the creation of stand-alone copies. 

Related topics

Preparing-a-stand-alone-copy-from-full-volume-dump

Performing-stand-alone-restore-bare-metal-recovery

Stand-alone copy prerequisites

To create a stand-alone copy, you can IPL IBM DFSMSdss over the network.

Obtain the following DFDSS files from the IBM Customized Offering Driver, which you can download from ShopZ free of charge:

  • DFSMSDSS.ins
  • DFSMSDSS.IMAGE
  • DFSMSDSS.PREFIX

Save the files in the $MODEL9_HOME/SAbackup path.

Important

Do not change the names or letter case of the DFSMSDSS files.

Stand-alone restore using FTP prerequisites

Important

Make sure you have applied IBM MCL Bundle H51, which includes EC-P46683.417, to the Hardware Management Console (HMC). EC-P46683.417 addresses "Attempting to perform an LPAR Load via files staged on an FTP server can fail".

To perform a stand-alone restore from removable media accessed via FTP, install the VSFTPD default server by using the following command: 

#Ubuntu
sudo apt-get install vsftpd

#RHEL
sudo yum install vsftpd

A local user with sudo permissions can run the following systemctl commands to enable and start the service: 

sudo systemctl enable vsftpd
sudo systemctl start vsftpd

Important

Do not change the names or letter case of the DFSMSDSS files. 

Stand-alone restore from removable media prerequisites

Format the device by using the FAT32 file system. It can reside in any directory except the root path.

Where to go from here

For more information about how to use the stand-alone program, see Preparing-a-stand-alone-copy-from-full-volume-dump and Performing-stand-alone-restore-bare-metal-recovery.

 

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