Defining Recovery Media

To describe the media needed for recovering a machine, first complete the following fields and then click Finish, or click Cancel to end the task. Recovery media can be associated with one or more machines.

Recovery Media Name

Enter the name of the recovery media to be defined. The maximum length of the recovery media name is 30 characters.

Volume Names

Enter the names of volumes that contain the recovery data.

Description

Enter a description of the recovery media. This field is optional. The maximum length of the description is 255 characters.

Volume Location

Enter the volume location of the recovery media. This field is optional. The maximum length of the volume location is 255 characters.

Type

Select the type of recovery media. The default is Other.

Boot Specifies that this is boot media. You must also make an entry in the Volume Names field.
Other Specifies that this is not boot media. For example, the media may contain softcopy reference publications.

Product

Enter the name of the product that wrote data on the media. This field is optional. The maximum length of the name is 16 characters.

Product Information

Enter a description of the product that wrote data on the media. This type of information is helpful when restoring the machine. This field is optional. The maximum length of the description is 255 characters.