Hetzner Rescue System Install Windows

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After you install windows os, you have to start RDP to aceess your server. Requirements The server needs to have at least 16GB of RAM and a processor that supports VT (Example: Intel i5). Booting the rescue systems gives you a complete linux system that is running on your server without using your hard disk.

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Please help me to install Windows OS On Hetzner Server, show me a guide how can i install Winddows OS through Hetzners Rescue System ..

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  • edited August 2016

    All you need to know is here:
    https://wiki.hetzner.de/index.php/Windows_Server_2012/en

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  • @Amitz I don't want to buy their Windows Server Addon, want to install trial version ..

  • @JohnShell said:
    @Amitz I don't want to buy their Windows Server Addon, want to install trial version ..

    Enter into rescue mode on Hetzner so run the script.

  • @JohnShell said:
    @Amitz I don't want to buy their Windows Server Addon, want to install trial version ..

    YOU HAVE download windows server 2012 . and install

  • The witcher 1 free download. Otherwise you can install useing qemu and vnc.

    qemu-system-x86_64 -net nic -net user,hostfwd=tcp::3389-:3389 -m 4096M -localtime -enable-kvm -cpu host,+nx -M pc -smp 2 -vga std -usbdevice tablet -k en-us -cdrom /tmp/win10.iso -hda /dev/sda -boot once=d -vnc :1

    Maybe you need to fix the iso location. If you do not have enough ram, you can store it on sdb somehow.

    good luck

Clone a server's harddisk

Login to Hetzner's web interface https://robot.your-server.de/ and activate the Rescue System for the server whose disk you wish to clone.

Ssh into the Rescue System (Replace 1.2.3.4 in the command below with the actual ip address of the server)

Install partclone

Spin up a Digital Ocean droplet for an hour and mount the droplet's filesystem to use it as a temporary store for the the harddisk image partclone generates (Hetzner's Rescue System runs entirely in memory and the server may not have sufficient memory to hold partclone's image)

Hetzner Rescue System Install Windows

Clone the server's root partition

If the image is larger than 15 GB, gzip it

Create a server_backup user in AWS's IAM and attach a policy like

Upload the harddisk image to Amazon S3

Restore a server's harddisk

The steps for restoring server's harddisk from partclone images are very similar

  • Ssh into Hetzner's Rescue System
  • Mount a different server's filesystem so it can serve as temporary storage
  • Download a partclone image from Amazon S3
  • Restore the server's disk from the partclone image using https://partclone.org/usage/partclone.restore.php

Refer to Partclone's Usage Docs https://partclone.org/usage/ for information on using Partclone. I've based this wiki on information I've obtained from the Usage Docs.