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<DIV><SPAN class=330061320-15032011><FONT face=Arial size=2>You could copy the
entire hard drive to a spare hard drive, using a program like Norton Ghost or
Acronis True Image. If you have the Enterprise version of either of these
programs, you could save an image of this disk to a file on a server. Or,
you could use a Clonezilla Live CD to save an image of the hard drive to a
server. The server has to have NFS or TFTP enabled, and in the Clonezilla Live
menu you have to select the file transfer method that matches. If you don't,
Clonezilla will attempt to save the disk image to a RAM
disk.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=330061320-15032011><FONT face=Arial size=2>To restore, reverse
the process. If you copied the freshly installed hard drive to a spare hard
drive, connect the spare and use Ghost or Acronis to copy to the server's hard
drive. With Clonezilla Live you MIGHT be able to boot the SPARC machine from a
Clonezilla Live CD and restore from an image file on a server. I haven't tried
that. What I use is Clonezilla SE (Server Edition) on the server, and network
boot client machines. The client can network boot using a BIOS setting, or if
BIOS does not support network boot you can use gPXE from either a 3.5" floppy or
a CD. The floppy or CD just downloads a network boot image from the server, just
like a BIOS network boot. You can configure DRBL (Diskless Remote Boot for
Linux) a few different ways, one is thin client, another is Clonezilla. With
Clonezilla it will restore the disk image. Whatever was on the hard drive when
you used the Clonezilla Live CD to take an image of it, that's what will be
restored. One caution though: the Clonezilla SE installation instructions
from their website have an error. I had to make a correction to get it to
work; a minor correction but it took some time to figure it out. I'm using
Clonezilla for deployment, setting up multiple Windows PCs at once. Multicast
works great, same time to download a disk image whether you're setting up 1 PC
or 253; but in your case unicast would work just as well. I found it can
transfer 7GB of hard drive data in 7 minutes on a 100Mb/s
network.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=330061320-15032011><FONT face=Arial size=2>Rob
Dyck</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
roundtable-bounces@muug.mb.ca [mailto:roundtable-bounces@muug.mb.ca] <B>On
Behalf Of </B>Kevin McGregor<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, March 15, 2011 1:08
PM<BR><B>To:</B> MUUG Roundtable<BR><B>Subject:</B> [RndTbl] Solaris
backup<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>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? </BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>