A resource can be either a hardware or software entity, categorized by resource type. LifeKeeper supplies file system and SCSI resource types, and the recovery kits provide communications, RDBMS, and other application resource types.
For example, a hierarchy for a protected file system includes instances for resources of the following types:
filesys. Linux file system resource objects identified by their mount point.
device. SCSI disk slices and virtual disks, identified by their device file names, for example sdc1.
disk. SCSI disks or RAID system logical units, identified by SCSI device name, for example sd