DEFINE RECOVERYMEDIA (Define recovery media)

Use this command to define the media needed to recover a machine. The same media can be associated with multiple machines. To display the information, use the QUERY MACHINE command. This information will be included in the plan file to help you to recover the client machines.

Privilege class

To issue this command, you must have system privilege.

Syntax


>>-DEFine RECOVERYMedia--media_name----------------------------->

>--+---------------------------------+-------------------------->
   |                 .-,-----------. |   
   |                 V             | |   
   '-VOLumenames--=----volume_name-+-'   

>--+-----------------------------+--+-----------------------+--->
   '-DESCription--=--description-'  '-LOcation--=--location-'   

   .-Type--=--OTher-----.                                 
>--+--------------------+--+--------------------------+--------->
   '-Type--=--+-OTher-+-'  '-PROduct--=--product_name-'   
              '-BOot--'                                   

>--+-------------------------------------+---------------------><
   '-PRODUCTInfo--=--product_information-'

Parameters

media_name (Required)

Specifies the name of the recovery media to be defined. The name can be up to 30 characters.

VOLumenames

Specifies the names of volumes that contain the recoverable data (for example, operating system image copies). This parameter is required if you specify a media type of BOOT. Specify boot media volume names in the order in which they are to be inserted into the machine at recovery time. The maximum length of the volume names list is 255 characters. Enclose the list in quotation marks if it contains any blank characters.

DESCription

Specifies the description of the recovery media. This parameter is optional. The maximum length is 255 characters. Enclose the text in quotation marks if it contains any blank characters.

LOcation

Specifies the location of the recovery media. This parameter is optional. The maximum length is 255 characters. Enclose the text in quotation marks if it contains any blank characters.

Type

Specifies the type of recovery media. This parameter is optional. The default is OTHER.

BOot: Specifies that this is boot media. You must specify volume names if the type is BOOT.
OTher: Specifies that this is not boot media. For example, a CD that contains operating system manuals.

PROduct

Specifies the name of the product that wrote to this media. This parameter is optional. The maximum length is 16 characters. Enclose the text in quotation marks if it contains any blank characters.

PRODUCTInfo

Specifies information about the product that wrote to the media. This would be information that you may need to restore the machine. This parameter is optional. The maximum length is 255 characters. Enclose the text in quotation marks if it contains any blank characters.

Example: Define the media needed to recover a machine

Define the recovery media named DIST5RM. Include a description and the location.

define recoverymedia dist5rm 
description="district 5 base system image" 
location="district 1 vault"

Related commands

Table 1. Commands related to DEFINE RECOVERYMEDIA
Command	Description
DEFINE RECMEDMACHASSOCIATION	Associates recovery media with a machine.
DELETE RECOVERYMEDIA	Deletes recovery media.
QUERY RECOVERYMEDIA	Displays media available for machine recovery.
UPDATE RECOVERYMEDIA	Changes the attributes of recovery media.