I'd just do it the good'ol fashion "dd" way.
I don't know where the hard drive devices on Solaris are, but let the partition be /dev/sda1 (example from Linux):
$ dd if=/dev/sda1 of=backup_file.img
Then to restore:
$ dd if=backup_file.img of=/dev/sda1
You might want to throw in "conv=noerror" at the end of the line in case you wish to ignore errors... but preferably there are no errors. ;)
This should work on any operating system still in production, except Windows.
Hope it helps!
Kind regards, Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson helgi@binary.is
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Kevin McGregor kevin.a.mcgregor@gmail.comwrote:
I've been asked to find a way to backup a Solaris SPARC machine. The request was: Suppose you have a fresh install of Solaris, and you want to back it up completely such that if you got a brand new machine you would be able to "just restore" this backup image of Solaris to a new hard drive and boot the new machine without having to re-install Solaris. How would you go about doing this? _______________________________________________ Roundtable mailing list Roundtable@muug.mb.ca http://www.muug.mb.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable