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

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  1. Introducing Veritas™ System Recovery for Linux
    1.  
      About Veritas System Recovery Linux Edition
  2. Installing Veritas System Recovery Linux Edition
    1. Before you install
      1.  
        System requirements
      2.  
        Installing Fuse
      3.  
        About supported file systems and removable media
      4.  
        When you delay licensing
    2.  
      About upgrading to Veritas System Recovery 21 Linux Edition
    3.  
      Installing Veritas System Recovery Linux Edition
    4.  
      Uninstalling Veritas System Recovery Linux Edition
  3. Backing up a Linux computer
    1.  
      About backing up a Linux computer
    2.  
      Viewing the details of the disk that you want to back up
    3.  
      Performing an independent backup
    4. Scheduling a backup
      1.  
        Viewing the details of existing backup jobs
      2.  
        Recovery point type options
      3.  
        Compression level options
      4.  
        Encryption type options
      5.  
        Scheduling options for starting a new recovery point set (base recovery point)
      6.  
        Scheduling options for creating recovery points (incremental recovery points)
      7.  
        Scheduling options for an independent recovery point
    5.  
      Running an existing backup job
  4. Restoring a Linux computer
    1.  
      About recovering a Linux computer
    2.  
      Starting a Linux-based computer using Veritas Recovery Disk
    3. Recovering a Linux computer
      1.  
        About restoring to empty disk segments
    4.  
      Mounting and unmounting a recovery point for granular file and folder recovery
  5. Creating a Veritas Recovery Disk
    1.  
      About Veritas Recovery Disk
    2.  
      Creating a Veritas Recovery Disk for Linux
  6. Features not supported in Veritas System Recovery for Linux
    1.  
      Windows product features not supported in this release
  7. Troubleshooting Veritas System Recovery Linux Edition
    1.  
      About finding logs for troubleshooting
    2.  
      About using the gatherLogs utility for troubleshooting
    3.  
      About troubleshooting cron services issues
  8. Appendix A. Veritas System Recovery for Linux Utilities
    1.  
      Create Veritas Recovery Disk (createSRD utility)
    2.  
      Backup and Restore (symsr utility)
    3.  
      Granular File Recovery (mount.v2i utility)

Running an existing backup job

You can run an existing backup at any point of time. This option is useful in the following situations:

  • You modify a large number of files and you want to back them up immediately rather than waiting for the scheduled backup to run.

  • You want to back up your computer before you install a new application or before you make any changes to the operating system.

To run an existing backup job

  1. At the Linux server, log on as user root or a user with administrative privileges.
  2. Enter the following command in a terminal window:

    symsr -runjob <job id>

    Replace <job id> with the ID of the backup job that you want to run.

    You can view the details of existing backup jobs to find out the ID of the backup job that you want to run.

    See Viewing the details of existing backup jobs.