Can you automate a restore off a bootable USB drive?
I've been searching the articles for a while and haven't found a solution.
I want to create a bootable thumb drive so all I have to do is plug it in and boot the PC and it'll restore the included image.
I haven't found any automates scripting tutorials (or unattended restore) except for references to "the old forums". I would like this for a PC that gets restored frequently and I am tired of having to click through the menu all the time.
Thumb drive sounds more like you're trying to make an automated Recovery Disk for that PC. I don't think B&R (or specifically its Rescue Environment) is scriptable.
Snap Deploy or Clonezilla might be more suitable for that.
I'm running a trial of snap deploy but I dont think it supports an unattended install. I PXE boot the client PC and it requires a login to the snapdeploy server. (am I doing this wrong?)
I'm downloading Clonezilla now, but it looks complicated.... I'll try to figure it out.
Hi Gregg
You should be able to setup your PXE server to boot the remote PC then connect to your snap deploy server
If required there is some example setup's in the manual which might be of use:
http://download2.acronis.com/u/pdf/ASD3_userguide_en-US.pdf
Hi Gregg and Datastor
Reliase that this is a very old thread, however appreciate your kind inputs.
Am using ABR 11 to create somthing similar to wat is mentioned, using acronis command line to create a script that runs automatically from the bootable disk.
Have successfully created the bootable meida as well as the required scripts to perform the restore opreations, however was not able to automatically launch it from from the bootable media. i.e. to place the scripts on the thumb drive, mount the thumbdrive and run the scripts.
Mounting commands are a bit much for the average user to perform, hence included a script for the end user to execute directly from the Acronis bootable media command line by adding the script to the bin folder of linux file system (referencing from http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-initrd/).
However encountered the error codes 0x1510008 $module = "acrocmd_glx", 0x1350016 $module = "disk_bundle_glx_pic" and The feature is not avaliable 0x19800001 $module = "disk_bundle_glx_pic". (from https://forum.acronis.com/forum/39114 understand that this seems to be related to license issues, and "acrocmd list licenses" does not bring up a license table)
Currently abit of a loss as how to proceed, why include a command line interface if it cannot be run from an included script.
Greatly appreciate you kind assistance.
Andy Lim