Administration
Creating a Backup Image
R&S VENICE S
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Once the loading has finished, you will see the RuS Rescue script
with its options on the screen. Your display should look similar to the
following:
6. To create a backup image of your system disk and save it to the internal
USB flash drive, press [1] and then [Enter].
A list of possible source devices will be detailed on the screen. The
system disk normally is the ‘ATA’ disk with, for example, ‘sda’, ‘sdb’ or
‘sdc’ as its device name
(e.g.:
1:0:0:0 disk ATA <device info> /dev/sda).
7. Enter the name of the system disk: Type in e.g. sda (or in other cases
sdb, sdc, etc.) and press [Enter].
The system will ask you to enter the image name for the backup
image to be saved to the USB flash drive. By entering the name of an
already existing backup image you can overwrite it.
8. Type in the name of the image you want to save to the USB flash drive
for a later recovery. To confirm your entry press [Enter].
The system will ask you to confirm your selection and whether you
want to continue:
If you do not perform any action, RuS Rescue will be
loaded automatically after 30 seconds.
Ex factory the R&S VENICE S will be delivered with ’sda’ as
the default system disk. If other configurations have been
made later or on customer request, this may be different.
Data Loss
Selecting the wrong source device may lead to an
unwanted configuration and malfunctions when the system
is operating.
Continue with the following steps only if you are able to
identify the correct source device.
--- RuS Rescue ---
1 - Backup on internal USB device
2 - Restore from internal USB device
5 - Reboot the system
6 - Poweroff the system
0 - Exit
Enter selection:
3 - Backup on self selected external device
4 - Restore from self selected external device