About restoring to empty disk segments

Veritas System Recovery 18 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:

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

After the recovery is complete, the disk has the following partitions with the restored volume on the /dev/sda2 partition:

See Mounting and unmounting a recovery point for granular file and folder recovery.