Creating a Veritas Recovery Disk for Linux

Last published : Apr 02, 2026
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
  1. Open a terminal window (command-line terminal) on the Linux server and log on as a user with administrative privileges.
  2. 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
  1. Open a terminal window (command-line terminal) on the Linux server and log on as a user with administrative privileges.
  2. 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
  1. Open a terminal window (command-line terminal) on the Linux server and log on as a user with administrative privileges.
  2. 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.
See About Veritas Recovery Disk.
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