Veritas™ System Recovery 21 User's Guide: Linux Edition

Adds a license key to Veritas System Recovery 21 Linux Edition.

Performs a backup of the specified device and creates a recovery point at the specified location.

Lets you schedule a backup job for a specific device, comma-separated multiple volumes, or mount points.

Shows information about the existing backup jobs, or the partitions and file system types that are available on the disk.

Restores the specified recovery point to the specified location.

Removes an existing backup job from the info job list.

Runs an existing backup job immediately, irrespective of the backup job schedule.

Verifies the integrity of the specified recovery point.

Show the help message and exits.

Sets the restored partition on the destination server to active.

The compression level you want to apply to the recovery point. Valid compression levels include None, Standard, Medium, and High. If you do not specify a compression level, the default is Standard.

The file or folder where the recovery point is created, or the device where the recovery point is to be restored. If you do not specify a destination, the default is the current directory. A destination is required for performing a recovery.

Use this option to provide a description of the recovery point.

Lists the partitions and file system types that are available on the disk.

Use this option to encrypt a recovery point. Encryption levels include high (256-bit), medium (192-bit), and standard (128-bit).

Each encryption level requires a different length password. Password lengths include at least 32 characters for high, at least 16 characters for medium, and at least eight characters for standard.

The default is no encryption if no encryption level is specified.

This option attempts to remove any mount points from the destination before a restore. If this option is not specified, the restore fails and an error message displays indicating that you should remove mount points and retry the restore.

This option lets you run a backup even if there are bad sectors on the hard disk. Although most drives do not have bad sectors, the potential for problems increases during the lifetime of the hard disk. If you have an older hard drive, you should use this option.

Lists all the scheduled backup jobs and their status. The status of a backup job is either active or in progress. Active status indicates that the scheduled job is active for the given recovery point type. In progress status indicates that the backup job is running on the device, after the backup job completes, the status changes back to active.

The mount point you want to add to the volume after it is restored (not persistent). <path> must be a valid path.

Do not restore the master boot record that is contained in the recovery point. This option is used only with the Restore action.

Use this option to specify a password for the recovery point file when creating a backup or to supply a password for a password-protected recovery point when restoring.

Lets you specify a prefix for the recovery point file name. The prefix is used when the destination is not specified or is a directory.

This option instructs Veritas System Recovery 21 Linux Edition to not use SmartSector copy. Instead, the entire volume is captured even if there is no data in some sectors of the volume.

Restart the computer when the restore is complete.

You can specify an empty section of the disk to restore the recovery point to (a zero-based index). The number must not be a negative number.

Use this option to divide the recovery point file into separate chunks. The number is the chunk size in x 500 MB, and cannot be negative.

Provides the information about the product name, version, and the license status.

Verify the recovery point after it is created or before it is restored.

Lets you select the source that you want to back up. The source can be one or more comma-separated devices or a mount point of a device.

Lets you select the location where you want to store the recovery points.

Creates a computer-specific folder in the backup destination location. By default, this option is set to no [n].

Lets you select the type of backup you want to create. The available backup types are independent backup and recovery point set. The default backup type is recovery point set [1].

Lets you select a compression level for the recovery points.

The following compression levels are available:

[1] Standard - 40 percent average data compression ratio on recovery points.

[2] Medium - 45 percent average data compression ratio on recovery points.

[3] High - 50 percent average data compression ratio on recovery points.

[4] No compression for the recovery points.

By default, standard [1] compression level is used for the recovery points.

Lets you set a password with or without encryption on the recovery point when it is created.

The following encryption types are available:

[1] No password and no encryption

[2] Standard 128-bit (8+ character password)

[3] Medium 192-bit (16+ character password)

[4] High 256-bit (32+ character password)

By default, this option is set to no password and no encryption [2].

Lets you specify a schedule to run the base backup for a recovery point set.

The following scheduling options are available:

[1] Weekly

Runs the backup on the day of the week you specify. By default, the backup is run on Sunday [SUNDAY].

[2] Monthly

Runs the backup on the days of the month you specify. You can choose to run the backup every day, on a specific day, or on the last day of the month. By default, the backup runs on the first day of the month [1].

[3] Quarterly

Runs the backup on the first day of every quarter. If you choose this option, the backup runs on the first day of January, April, July, and October.

[4] Yearly

Runs the backup on the first day of January.

Specify backup start time

Runs the backup at the time and on the days specified by you.

The default schedule for running backups is Weekly [1].

Lets you schedule a backup to create recovery points.

The following scheduling options are available:

Schedule recovery points

Lets you specify whether you want to create recovery points. By default, this option is set to yes [y].

Recur every week

Runs the backup on the days of the week you specify. You can choose to run the backup on one day or multiple days in a week. By default, the backup runs on Sunday [SUNDAY]

Run more than once a day

Runs the backup more than once a day to protect the data that you change frequently. By default, this option is set to no [n].

Time between backups

Specifies the maximum time period that should occur between two backups. This option appears only if you have selected to run backups more than once a day.

Number of backups

Specifies the number of times the backup should run in a day. Ensure that you specify a number considering the number of hours that you have specified to occur between two backups. For example, if you have specified a period of 10 hours to occur between backups, you cannot run more than three backups a day.

Lets you schedule backups to create independent recovery points.

The following scheduling options are available:

[1] Weekly

Runs the backup on the day of the week you specify. By default, the backup runs on Sunday [SUNDAY].

[2] Monthly

Runs the backup on the days of the month you specify. You can choose to run the backup every day, on a specific day, or on the last of day of the month. By default, the backup runs on the first day of the month [1].

[3] Quarterly

Runs the backup on the first day of every quarter. If you choose this option, the backup runs on the first day of January, April, July, and October.

[4] Yearly

Runs the backup on the first day of January.

[5] Run only once

Runs the backup only once.

Recur every week

Runs the backup on the days of the week you specify. You can choose to run the backup on one or more days of the week. By default, the backup runs on Sunday [SUNDAY].

Specify backup start time

Runs the backup at the time on the days that you specified.

Verify recovery point after creation

Verifies whether the recovery point is valid after it is created.

Save Job

Lets you save or cancel a backup job. By default, this option is set to yes [y].

Provide Job Name

Lets you specify a name for the backup job you want to save. You must enter a job name. The job name cannot be blank and cannot contain only spaces.

Creates a recovery point named sda1backup.v2i for volume sda1 using default options and storage. The recovery point is created in the same folder where the command is run.

Creates a recovery point named sda1backup.v2i for the mount point /boot. The recovery point is created in the same folder where the command is run.

Creates a recovery point of an LVM volume. The recovery point is created in the same folder where the command is run.

Creates a recovery point of volume sda1 with the default file name. This creates the recovery point in the current folder using the name volume_name_NNN.v2i.

Creates a recovery point of volume sda1 with the supplied file name. This creates the recovery point in the current folder using the name machinename_volumename_NNN.v2i.

Creates a folder using the computer name and place the recovery point of volume sda1 in that folder.

Creates a recovery point of volume sda1 in the specified computer subfolder with the specified file name. This creates the recovery point in the specified computer subfolder using the name machinename_volumename_NNN.v2i.

Creates a recovery point that skips over the bad sectors on the hard disk.

Creates a recovery point with password protection.

Creates a recovery point with high compression.

Creates a recovery point with an embedded recovery point description.

Creates a recovery point that spans multiple files that are each 1000 MB. The chunk size in x 500 MB.

Creates a recovery point using AES-256 encryption. For high AES encryption, the password length must be at least 32 characters.

Shows the partitions and file system types that are available on the disk.

Shows a list of existing backup jobs and their details.

Restores the system partition back to its original location (/dev/sda1).

Restores the fifth incremental recovery point of the system partition back to its original location (/dev/sda1).

Restores the system partition back to its original location (/dev/sda1) on a new or empty disk.

Restores an LVM device back to its original location (/dev/mapper/vg0-lvl).

Removes the backup job corresponding to the specified job ID.

Runs the backup job corresponding to the specified job ID immediately, irrespective of the backup schedule.

Shows the information about the product name, version, and the license status.

Verifies the integrity of the recovery point.

Verifies the integrity of the spanned recovery point and the recovery point chain.