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
About restoring to empty disk segments
Veritas System Recovery Linux Edition lets you restore to an MBR (Master Boot Record) partition, GPT and LVM devices, Software RAID, or to free space on the disk. If you restore to free disk space (an empty disk segment), an MBR partition (on an MBR disk) or a GPT entry (on a GPT disk) is created regardless of the partition type that the recovery point was created from
For example, suppose you have a 40 GB hard disk (/dev/sda) that is partitioned as follows:
/dev/sda1=20GB
Free Space=20GB
To restore a recovery point named backup01.v2i to free space, you use the following command:
symsr -r backup01.v2i -d /dev/sda -seg 1
Note:
To find the empty segment number, you can use the following command:
symsr -info disk
After the recovery is complete, the disk has the following partitions with the restored volume on the /dev/sda2 partition:
/dev/sda1
/dev/sda2
See Mounting and unmounting a recovery point for granular file and folder recovery.