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.com>wrote:
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