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:Author: Tim Daneliuk (tundra@tundraware.com)
 
:Version: ``$Id: baremetal.rst,v 1.116 2014/08/23 20:04:31 tundra Exp $``
:Version: ``$Id: baremetal.rst,v 1.117 2014/08/23 20:08:24 tundra Exp $``
 
 
Précis
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Reboot machine to make it operational again
 
 
On the same network described above, restoring the 52MB ``rootvg``
took about 35 mins.
 
If you backed up using compression, then the last two ``dd`` commands
will be::
 
dd if=/shared/boot.dd.gz | gunzip >/dev/sda1 # Restore /boot
 
dd if=/shared/root.dd.gz | gunzip >/dev/sda2 # Restore rootvg LVM (rest of OS)
 
 
On the same network described above, restoring the 52MB ``rootvg``
took about 35 mins.
Restoring To A Different Sized Drive
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Because this is partition based - that is, you are imaging and
restoring *partitions*, not disks - you can actually restore to a
physical disk that is a different size than the one from which the