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
Starting a Linux-based computer using Veritas Recovery Disk
The Veritas Recovery Disk CD lets you start a computer that can no longer run the Linux operating system. The Veritas Recovery Disk CD is not included with Veritas System Recovery Linux Edition. You must create the Veritas Recovery Disk CD using the createSRD utility after installing Veritas System Recovery Linux Edition.
See Creating a Veritas Recovery Disk for Linux.
When you start your computer using the Veritas Recovery Disk CD, the recovery process follows the recovery environment process of the rescue disk that you used to create Veritas Recovery Disk.
To start a Linux-based computer using Veritas Recovery Disk
- If you store your recovery points on a USB device, attach the device now (for example, an external hard drive).
Note:
You should attach the device before you restart the computer. Otherwise, the recovery environment might not detect it.
- Insert the Veritas Recovery Disk CD that you created previously into the media drive of the computer.
- Restart the computer.
If you cannot start the computer from the CD, you might need to change the startup and BIOS settings on your computer.
- Boot your computer into the rescue environment.
To activate network into the rescue environment, do one of the following:
Activate your network from within the Red Hat or SUSE rescue environment.
Activate your network using the ifup command.
- Check if correct version of Veritas System Recovery Linux Edition is installed on your computer.
To check the version of Veritas System Recovery Linux Edition, open a terminal window (command-line terminal) and enter the following command:
symsr -v
- If correct version of Veritas System Recovery Linux Edition is installed on your computer, proceed to restore your system.
See Recovering a Linux computer.
See Mounting and unmounting a recovery point for granular file and folder recovery.