Veritas™ System Recovery 21 User's Guide: Linux Edition
- Introducing Veritas™ System Recovery for Linux
- Installing Veritas System Recovery Linux Edition
- Backing up a Linux computer
- About backing up a Linux computer
- Viewing the details of the disk that you want to back up
- Performing an independent backup
- Scheduling a backup
- Viewing the details of existing backup jobs
- Recovery point type options
- Compression level options
- Encryption type options
- Scheduling options for starting a new recovery point set (base recovery point)
- Scheduling options for creating recovery points (incremental recovery points)
- Scheduling options for an independent recovery point
- Running an existing backup job
- Restoring a Linux computer
- Creating a Veritas Recovery Disk
- Features not supported in Veritas System Recovery for Linux
- Troubleshooting Veritas System Recovery Linux Edition
- Appendix A. Veritas System Recovery for Linux Utilities
Name
createSRD — Create a Veritas Recovery Disk
SYNOPSIS
createSRD [source]... [destination]
createSRD [source]... [install ISO type, disk type]... [destination]
DESCRIPTION
createSRD is a command line utility for creating a Veritas Recovery Disk (VRD). Veritas Recovery Disk lets you start a computer that can no longer run the Linux operating system. When you boot your computer using the Veritas Recovery Disk CD, a scaled-down version of Linux runs a recovery environment. In the recovery environment, you can access the recovery features of Veritas System Recovery.
OPTIONS
- -h, --help
Show this help message and exit.
- -i FILE or DIR, --iso=FILE or DIR
CD ISO file or directory where the CD is mounted. You use this ISO file or directory to create a Veritas Recovery Disk.
- -d FILE, --destination=FILE
The output ISO file that the script creates.
- -m, --manual-modifications
Pause after all files are extracted to allow for manual modifications.
- --temp-dir=DIR
Temporary directory that is used for creating the new ISO file. The default is /tmp/<iso_name>.
- -v --verbose
Print extra status messages to stdout.
EXAMPLES
createSRD uses POSIX-style options. This is different than the symsr utility, which always uses a single '-' even if the option contains multiple characters. Single-letter parameters may be specified as a group in POSIX tar -xvf, but cannot be in the symsr utilities.
The following are usage examples for the createSRD utility.
- createSRD --iso=/mnt/backup/rhel-5.2-server-i386-dvd.iso -d /mnt/backup/customSRD.iso
Create an Veritas Recovery Disk from a Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) boot CD/DVD iso.
- createSRD --iso=/media/SLES10SP_001/ -d /mnt/backup/customSRD.iso
Create a Veritas Recovery Disk from a SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) CD/DVD in the drive.
- createSRD -i /media/SLES10 -d srd.iso
Create a Veritas Recovery Disk from a SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) CD/DVD mounted in the /media/ directory.
SEE ALSO
Man page for Backup and Restore (symsr utility).
Man page for Granular File Recovery (mount.v2i utility).