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
Creating a Veritas Recovery Disk for Linux
To create a Veritas Recovery Disk for Linux you must have a Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) boot CD/DVD or ISO or a SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) CD/DVD or ISO.
Note:
The ISO must match the distribution and version of Linux that you currently have installed and running.
To create a Veritas Recovery Disk for Linux CD using a Red Hat Enterprise Linux boot CD/DVD iso file
- Open a terminal window (command-line terminal) on the Linux server and log on as a user with administrative privileges.
- Enter the following command at the Linux server console:
createSRD --iso=/mnt/backup/rhel-5.2-server-i386-dvd.iso -d /mnt/backup/customSRD.iso
Replace /mnt/backup/rhel-5.2-server-i386-dvd.iso with the path and name of the source ISO file you use to create the Veritas Recovery Disk.
Replace /mnt/backup/customSRD.iso with the path and name of the Veritas Recovery Disk ISO file that you want to create.
To create a Veritas Recovery Disk using a SUSE Linux Enterprise Server CD/DVD in the drive
- Open a terminal window (command-line terminal) on the Linux server and log on as a user with administrative privileges.
- Enter the following command at the Linux server console:
createSRD --iso=/media/SLES10SP_001/ -d /mnt/backup/customSRD.iso
Replace /media/SLES10SP_001/ with the path to where the CD is mounted.
Replace /mnt/backup/customSRD.iso with the path and name of the Veritas Recovery Disk ISO file that you want to create.
To create a Veritas Recovery Disk using a SUSE Linux Enterprise Server CD/DVD mounted in the /media directory
- Open a terminal window (command-line terminal) on the Linux server and log on as a user with administrative privileges.
- Enter the following command at the Linux server console:
createSRD -i /media/SLES10 -d /mnt/backup/customSRD.iso
Replace /mnt/backup/customSRD.iso with the path and name of the Veritas Recovery Disk ISO file that you want to create.
Note:
You can also use RHEL 6.2 boot CD to create Veritas Recovery Disk for Linux.