GEN 3 Libra Backup and Recovery Solution
Backup
The two Libra Loadout systems in the Orlando Plant, GEN3HOST12670 and GEN3REMOTE12670, were standalone systems with no backup or a contingency plan.
The solution was to create a backup strategy that would backup both systems so they could be recovered quickly in the event of a failure.
Each system is now being backed up once a day up to the Littleton HQ datacenter. That backup is subsequently backed up daily to our offsite SOBR/Wasabi cloud storage.
Recovery
Below are the instructions for recovering the GEN3 Libra systems from Veeam bootable USB drive.
Contact Command Alcon Support to help get the Libra application working again.
- Insert the USB stick and turn the system on.
- For DELL systems, hit the
F12 key to bring up the "One time boot" option and boot to the USB
stick.
- Once booted you should see this, choose "Bare Metal Recovery"
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- Under "Backup
Location" choose Network storage.
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- Under "Network
Storage" choose the Veeam backup repository.
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- Under "Backup
Server," enter 192.168.116.19 and use your <admin>@middlesex.com
account to access it.
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- In the
"Backup" section, select the GEN3 system you need to restore. For this I'll use the GEN3HOST12670 backup.
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- Then in the
"Restore Point" section, choose the time you want to restore from
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- When restoring to
the same hardware, choose "Entire Computer
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When restoring to
the different hardware, choose "Manual restore (advanced)"
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- If you are restoring
to dissimilar hardware, you may get an error message like this.
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The disk mapping
should come over like this on the same hardware.
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- Once you click on
"Finish" the restore will start.
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When the system
resumes, check it for functionality.