[RndTbl] Solaris backup

[Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson]

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 at binary.is

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Kevin McGregor
<kevin.a.mcgregor at 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?
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