1 Copyright © 2015 Pexus LLC Backup and Restore for your Patriot PS Personal Server Pradeep Nambiar Patriot PS Product Architect & Developer Founder, Pexus LLC Your Server, Your Data, Your Terms !
Copyright © 2015 Pexus LLC 22 Backing up your Patriot PS Personal Server Two types of Backup Supported System Backup Regular Backup
Copyright © 2015 Pexus LLC 33 Access Backup from PPS Configuration Application Home Page
Copyright © 2015 Pexus LLC 44 Click Refresh / Mount to detect / mount USB Storage Devices After mounting, the page displays the current backup sets if found on the mounted device Use this page to delete old backups or view information on the backups created You can also Format a USB storage device if required using Format button
Copyright © 2015 Pexus LLC 55 Optionally - Format USB Storage Device if needed Formatting may take some time depending upon the size of the USB storage device and type of Format selected
Copyright © 2015 Pexus LLC 66 Format Success Mount newly formatted device
Copyright © 2015 Pexus LLC 77 Create Regular Backup Provide a name and password for the backup and Click Submit
Copyright © 2015 Pexus LLC 88 Regular Backup Progress Status
Copyright © 2015 Pexus LLC 99 Regular Backup Information Check status of backup Update to the same backup Delete backup Or create a new Regular Backup from the Backup page Regular Backup can be restored using Restore page Go to Home Page -> Restore page
Copyright © 2015 Pexus LLC 10 Restore a Regular Backup Provide password ppsadmin password and backup password to restore and click Submit
Copyright © 2015 Pexus LLC 11 Regular Backup Restore Status Enter ppsadmin password to reboot
Copyright © 2015 Pexus LLC 12 System Backup System back requires USB Storage to be formatted in REAR format If not already in that format, use the format option to format the USB storage device.
Copyright © 2015 Pexus LLC 13 Specify System Backup Info and Password
Copyright © 2015 Pexus LLC 14 System Backup Success
Copyright © 2015 Pexus LLC 15 Restoring from System Backup Will require a monitor and USB keyboard Connect VGA monitor to VGA port of Patriot PS Personal Server Connect USB keyboard to USB port of Patriot PS Personal Server Connect the USB Storage media to Patriot PS Personal Server Boot from the USB Storage media Change BIOS to select the USB Storage media as bootable device
Copyright © 2015 Pexus LLC 16 System Restore Boot Screen – REAR – Relax and Recover boot menu Select the Recovery Images for the Personal Server e.g. iserv4me
Copyright © 2015 Pexus LLC 17 System Restore: Select the Backup Image DONOT Select the AUTOMATIC RECOVER option – as we need provide the backup password to recover Select the backup from the desired date
Copyright © 2015 Pexus LLC 18 System Restore: At login prompt, Enter : root to login
Copyright © 2015 Pexus LLC 19 System Restore: Type ppsRecover.sh and enter backup password
Copyright © 2015 Pexus LLC 20 System Restore: Select the Archive image to restore
Copyright © 2015 Pexus LLC 21 System Restore : Recovery starts
Copyright © 2015 Pexus LLC 22 System Restore: Remove USB Device and Reboot after recover completes
Copyright © 2015 Pexus LLC 23 Patriot PS Personal Server System will be rebooted with the image – Login using PPS Configuration Application to verify
Copyright © 2015 Pexus LLC 24 Thank You