How to Perform CentOS Stream Bare Metal Restore/P2P Migration with Vinchin Backup & Recovery?

When disaster strikes or it’s time to upgrade hardware, restoring a CentOS Stream server quickly is vital. Bare metal restore (BMR) lets you recover your entire CentOS Stream server—including the operating system, applications, settings, and data—onto new or blank hardware. This ensures your server boots up and runs just like before, even after major failures or corruption.

Vinchin takes this further with P2P (physical-to-physical) migration for CentOS Stream servers. You can move a fully configured CentOS Stream system from one physical machine to another with matching hardware. Whether you’re recovering from downtime or moving to better equipment, Vinchin makes the process simple and reliable so your business keeps running smoothly.

How to use Vinchin to perform bare metal restore of CentOS Stream Server?

Vinchin supports bare metal restore of CentOS Stream server in simple steps but you should have a backup of it created by Vinchin before. Make sure the hardware configurations should be the same as the original server, including mainboard, CPU, RAM disks, etc. Then you need to boot the server with LiveCD or WinPE ISO image provided by Vinchin, which can be download in Vinchin help center.

Finally, you can easily perform a bare metal restore of the CentOS Stream server in 4 steps:

Step 1. Select the backup data of CentOS Stream server in Vinchin Backup & Recovery

Step 2. Select the target server as destination

Step 3. Select the strategies

Step 4. Submit the job

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