Create Veritas Recovery Disk (createSRD utility)
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).