• Starting the R1Soft CDP agent
• Mount/chroot into the base OS

At this time, the Automated Rescue Environment (or ARE) is a Linux based system including the R1Soft Agent.

Starting the R1Soft CDP agent

To start the R1Soft agent, simply type in

/etc/init.d/buagent start

The agent is already configured to run in recovery mode, meaning that there is no authentication between you and the server allowing you to do a bare-metal restore.

Mount/chroot into the base OS

1. Find your hard disk. Doing this will also show you if your controllers were supported.
   

   fdisk -l /dev/[sh]d?

2. Mount the appropriate drive/partition into /mnt. For example
   

   mount /dev/sda5 /mnt

3. Mount proc, sysfs, and dev
   

   mount -t proc none /mnt/proc
mount -t sysfs none /mnt/sys
mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev

4. Then chroot() into your environment
   

   chroot /mnt /bin/bash
source /etc/profile
export PS1="(chroot) $PS1"

You should now be inside of your original system. To return to the rescue environment just type exit.