How to Mount and Unmount Recovery Points for a Linux Machine (4034544)

Complete the steps in the following procedure to mount and unmount a recovery point volume on a Linux machine.

To mount a recovery point volume on a Linux machine

1. Create a new directory for mounting the recovery point, such as /myfolder, but do not use the existing tmp or mnt folders.

2. Verify the directory exists.

3. Run the Rapid Recovery local mount utility as root, or as the super user. For example:  sudo local_mount

4. At the Rapid Recovery mount prompt, enter the following command to list the protected machines: lm

5. When prompted, enter the IP address or hostname of the Rapid Recovery Core server.

6. Enter the logon credentials for the Core server (user name and password).A list will display showing the protected machines on the Rapid Recovery server.

7. Enter the following command to list the currently mounted recovery points for a specified machine: lr

NOTE: You can also enter the machine ID number in this command instead of the line item number.  A list will display that shows the base and incremental recovery points for that machine. This list includes a line item number, data/timestamp, location of volume, size of recovery point, and an ID number for the volume that includes a sequence number at the end, which identifies the recovery point.

8. Enter the following command to select and mount the specified recovery point at the specified mount point/path:  m

Syntax:

m recovery_point_id_number {w} /myfolder/mount_directory

or

m machine_number recovery_point_number partition_letter {w} /myfolder/mount_directory

NOTE: In this second syntax option, you can specify a line number in the command instead of the recovery point ID number to identify the recovery point. In that case, you would use the agent/machine line number (from the lm output), followed by the recovery point line number and volume letter, followed by the path, such as, m . For example, if the lm output lists three agent machines, and you enter the lr command for number 2 and you to mount the 23 recovery point volume b to /myfolder/mount_dir the command would be: m 2 23 b /myfolder/mount_dir. Also note that the {w} stands for "writeable" and is optional.

9. To verify the mount was successful, Obtain a list of mounted Network Block Device (NBD)-devices.

If you mount any recovery point, you will get a path to NBD-device after executing the l or list command: l

10. Enter the following command to unmount a recovery point: umount

11. Run the l or list command to verify that the unmount of the recovery point was successful.

NOTE: By default the latest 25 RPs will be displayed when running the lr command. You can get the utility to show more recovery points by executing the following example:

lr -n 100 5

The above command states, "show me 100 recovery points for agent number 5."  The order matters and you need to put the number of recovery points first.

You can type help for more commands and how they are used, within the local_mount utility.