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Steps to Download Complete Platform Data (Installer Disks)

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  • Turn the server computer ON.

  • Press ctrl+alt+T (This command will lead you to the Linux terminal).

  • Type “lsblk” (This will list all the available block devices <internal as well as external>connected to the CPU)

     (Screen listing block devices(Hard Disks or Pen Drives))

  • Connect your hard disk on the server CPU.

  • Ensure that your Hard Disks/ Pendrive is in EXT4 format and has at least more than 10GB of free space available.

  • Type “lsblk” (This will locate the hard disk number/name/code, for eg. here it is sdb2)

                  (Screen showing External Hard Disk mounted on sdb)

 

 

  • Then, type “sudo mount /dev/sdb2 /mnt”.

  • After the above step, the PC will ask for the password (which can be obtained from the lab incharge)

                  (Screen asking for the password of the server machine)

 

 

  • After you type the password and press enter, the hard disk will be mounted to the CPU. 

  • Type “lsblk” to check if the CPU has mounted the external hard disk.

                                        (Screen Indicating sdb is mounted on /mnt )

 

 

 ( If it has, then under the MOUNTPOINT column, it will indicate /mnt, this means the HDD is connected).

  • You will need to copy the script file from your Installer Disk to the Server Machine. You can copy using the following command

“sudo cp /mnt/backup-complete-server-data.sh /home/core”

or you can copy paste it manually.

  • Type “sudo bash backup-complete-server-data.sh” (This command will execute the script to download data and it begins by asking two prompts).

             (Screen asking for Prompt Number 1, Press Y on your keyboard)

 

 

  • Type Y for prompt no.1 and press enter

  • For the second prompt, type hard disk name for eg. here it is sdb (Since Our external Disk Name is sdb, we type sdb from the keyboard)

  • Press enter (After pressing the enter, it will automatically start downloading the data)

  • Once you confirm that existing data got backed up from server machine, unmount the hard disk​ by using the following command (assuming partition mounted is at “/mnt”) and ​ remove the hard disk​ from machine:

Command: “sudo umount /mnt”

Please note: To locate the platform data in the HARD DISK, go to

Hard Disk

--home

---core

----2018

------> TG/MZ/CT/RJ(Depending on the Server)

# Note:It is very important to identify the external HDD, so anything other than sda is an external drive. Also if you are to backup server data on an Installer Hard Disk , they have two partitions instead of one

 

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1PzEC9XC3Mh3OR9YW2DgCtNp3FtP-WDAH

 

  • Steps to Download Complete Platform Data (Pen Drives/HDD):

 

  • Turn the server computer ON.

  • Press ctrl+alt+T (This command will lead you to the Linux terminal).

  • Type “lsblk” (This will list all the available block devices <internal as well as external>connected to the CPU)

                 (Screen listing block devices(Hard Disks or Pen Drives))

  • Connect your hard disk on the server CPU

  • Ensure that your Hard Disks/ Pendrive is in EXT4 format and has at least more than 10GB of free space available.

  • Then type “lsblk” (This will locate the hard disk number/name/code, for eg. here it is sdb)

                   (Screen showing External Hard Disk mounted on sdb)

 

 

  • Then, type “sudo mount /dev/sdb /mnt”

  • After the above step, the PC will ask for the password (which can be obtained from the lab incharge)

(Screen asking for the password of the server machine)

 

 

  • After you type the password and press enter, the hard disk will be mounted to the CPU.

  • Type “lsblk” to check if the CPU has mounted the external hard disk.

 (Screen Indicating sdb is mounted on /mnt )

( If it has, then under the MOUNTPOINT column, it will indicate /mnt, this means the HDD is connected).

  • You will need to copy the script file from your Hard Disks/Pendrive to the Server Machine. You can copy using the following command:

“sudo cp /mnt/backup-complete-server-data.sh /home/core”

or you can copy paste it manually.

  • Type “sudo bash backup-complete-server-data.sh” (This command will execute the script to download data and it begins by asking two prompts).

              (Screen asking for Prompt Number 1, Press Y on your keyboard)

 

 

  • Type Y for prompt no.1 and press enter

  • For the second prompt, type hard disk name for eg. here it is sdb (Since Our external Disk Name is sdb, we type sdb from the keyboard)

  • Press enter (After pressing the enter, it will automatically start downloading the data)

  • Once you confirm that existing data got backed up from server machine, unmount the hard disk​ by using the following command (assuming partition mounted is at “/mnt”) and ​ remove the hard disk​ from machine:

Command: “sudo umount /mnt”

Please note: To locate the platform data in the HARD DISK, go to

Hard Disk

--home

---core

----2018

------> TG/MZ/CT/RJ(Depending on the Server)

# Note:It is very important to identify the external HDD, so anything other than sda is an external drive. Also if you are to backup server data on an Installer Hard Disk , they have two partitions instead of oneHard Disk

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1awcd3UK2rR3YHj3Xkp2hOjclXd84TbUm



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