Recover with iSCSI

1. Log into an appliance or private vault through x360Recover Manager. From the Protected Systems page, click into a protected system and scroll to the bottom of the page to view its snapshots.  

Locate a snapshot from the point-in-time you wish to recover, and click the iSCSI Start button. 

2. Select Test Mode or Live Mode. 

• If recovering from a recent backup, Test Mode is recommended. 
• If recovering from a snapshot that was previously used to boot a virtual machine (VM) in live mode, select Live Mode to attach to the persistent snapshot clone containing the data changes made while the VM was running. 
• The Use Smart Recovery option is not recommended for file and folder recovery. Smart Recovery restores the original disk identity and UUID headers. Older versions of Windows will refuse to mount two disks with identical UUID identity, while newer versions of Windows will silently change the UUID identity of the new disks. Neither of these outcomes are likely desired! 

Click Start. 

3. Once the snapshot has been exported, you can mount the virtual disk target to your Windows recovery system. For a system running Windows 7 or newer, or Windows Server 2008 or newer, navigate to the Control Panel's Administrative Tools. 

Open the iSCSI Initiator applet.

If prompted to start the service, click Yes. 

4. In the Target field, enter the IP address of the appliance or vault, then click Quick Connect. 

Available disks will populate. Reference the iSCSI menu pane of the appliance or vault for the IQN Name of the disk volume you would like to search. 

Select the desired disk in the Discovered targets field and click Connect. 

5. Once the disk has been connected, navigate to the Control Panel's Administrative Tools and open the Computer Management applet. Expand Storage and click Disk Management. 

6. Locate the newly attached system disk and verify it is online. If not, right-click the disk name and select Online. 

Find the drive letter that has been assigned to the disk volume(s). In the example above, it's the F: drive. 

7. Use Windows Explorer or your preferred file management utility to search or browse for the file and folders you want to recover. Copy and paste them back to their original server locations. 

8. Once recovery is complete, you must remove your disk connections. 

• Close any Windows Explorer windows open to the recovery disk volumes. 
• From the Disk Management applet, right-click the disk name and select Offline. 
• From the iSCSI Initiator applet, select the connected disk(s) and select Disconnect. If you receive an error, try again after stopping iSCSI on the appliance or vault (described below). 
  • Remove any entries referencing the appliance or iSCSI LUNs from the Discovery and Favorites. 
• In the appliance or vault, click the Stop button from the iSCSI page.  

You have successfully recovered using iSCSI! 

Recover with a manual partition

How to recover with manual partition

1. Export the protected system from the appliance using the iSCSI method. 

If you are recovering a system that has been running in Live Mode as a virtual machine on the appliance, then select Live Mode. 

Otherwise, choose Test Mode.

2. Boot your new system from the x360Recover Recovery Toolkit. 

3. When the desktop loads, launch iSCSI Manager from the Utilities folder of the Launcher menu. 

4. Enter the IP address of the appliance and click Discover. 

Discovered targets will populate. Select the disk target(s) containing the Windows volume(s) you wish to recover. Click Connect to attach them to the recovery tools environment. 

5. Launch Disk Manager. Identify the device path for the local disk you intend to restore the volume to, as well as the device path of the original volume you mounted via iSCSI. 

6. Launch LXTerminal from the System Tools folder of the Launcher menu. 

• Elevate to the root user by running sudo su. 
• Clone the partition table and disk identity onto the new system by running the following command: 
  
  dd if=<source disk device> of=<destination disk device> bs=1024 count=1024
  
  For example, if your original protected system is /dev/sdb and your new local disk is /dev/sda, then you would run dd if=/dev/sdb /of=/dev/sda bs=1024 count=1024

7. Launch GParted from the shortcut on the desktop. 

Note: If a message appears during launch stating that not all available space is in use, click Fix. For each partition from the original C: drive:

• Select the source disk device from the drop-down choices in the top right corner
• Right-click on the partition and select copy
• Select the destination disk from the drop-down selector
• Right-click the appropriate partition
• Click Paste
• Click OK when the warning on overwriting an existing partition appears.
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For additional volumes, repeat the steps above to copy each partition onto the destination disk. Select unallocated space on the destination disk and a new partition will be created. Once all partitions have been selected, click the Check button from the top tool bar to perform the selected actions.

8.  When all operations have completed, reboot to verify that the system will boot normally.