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  • Introducing Veritas™ System Recovery For Linux
    • About Veritas System Recovery Linux Edition
  • Installing Veritas System Recovery Linux Edition
    • Before You Install
      • About Supported File Systems And Removable Media
      • When You Delay Licensing
      • Installing Fuse
      • System Requirements
    • Installing Veritas System Recovery Linux Edition
    • Uninstalling Veritas System Recovery Linux Edition
    • About Upgrading To Veritas System Recovery 18 Linux Edition
  • Backing Up A Linux Computer
    • About Backing Up A Linux Computer
    • Performing An Independent Backup
    • Scheduling A Backup
      • Encryption Type Options
      • Scheduling Options For Starting A New Recovery Point Set (base Recovery Point)
      • Viewing The Details Of Existing Backup Jobs
      • Scheduling Options For An Independent Recovery Point
      • Recovery Point Type Options
      • Scheduling Options For Creating Recovery Points (incremental Recovery Points)
      • Compression Level Options
    • Running An Existing Backup Job
    • Viewing The Details Of The Disk That You Want To Back Up
  • Restoring A Linux Computer
    • Starting A Linux Based Computer Using Veritas Recovery Disk
    • Recovering A Linux Computer
      • About Restoring To Empty Disk Segments
    • Mounting And Unmounting A Recovery Point For Granular File And Folder Recovery
    • About Recovering A Linux Computer
  • Creating A Veritas Recovery Disk
    • About Veritas Recovery Disk
    • Creating A Veritas Recovery Disk For Linux
  • Features Not Supported In Veritas System Recovery For Linux
    • Windows Product Features Not Supported In This Release
  • Troubleshooting Veritas System Recovery Linux Edition
    • About Finding Logs For Troubleshooting
    • About Troubleshooting Cron Services Issues
    • About Using The GatherLogs Utility For Troubleshooting
  • Appendix A. Veritas System Recovery For Linux Utilities
    • Backup And Restore (symsr Utility)
    • Granular File Recovery (mount.v2i Utility)
    • Create Veritas Recovery Disk (createSRD Utility)
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Last published : Apr 02, 2026
This section includes the following topics:
  • 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
  • Running an existing backup job
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