I'd just do it the good'ol fashion "dd" way.<div><br></div><div>I don't know where the hard drive devices on Solaris are, but let the partition be /dev/sda1 (example from Linux):</div><div><br></div><div>
$ dd if=/dev/sda1 of=backup_file.img</div><div><br></div><div>Then to restore:</div><div><br></div><div>$ dd if=backup_file.img of=/dev/sda1</div><div><br></div><div>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. ;)</div>
<div><br></div><div>This should work on any operating system still in production, except Windows.</div><div><br></div><div>Hope it helps!</div><div><br></div><div>Kind regards,</div><div>Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson</div><div><a href="mailto:helgi@binary.is">helgi@binary.is</a></div>
<div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Kevin McGregor <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kevin.a.mcgregor@gmail.com">kevin.a.mcgregor@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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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