dd(1). And that would also need a boot cd, which is non-trivial under Solaris on SPARC. AFAIK there's no really good way to do what you want with that HW/SW combination.

Sent from my Nokia phone -----Original Message----- From: Kevin McGregor Sent: 2011-03-15 14:07:58 Subject: [RndTbl] Solaris backup

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?