[RndTbl] Solaris backup

[Robert Dyck]

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.
 
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.
 
Rob Dyck

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From: roundtable-bounces at muug.mb.ca [mailto:roundtable-bounces at muug.mb.ca]
On Behalf Of Kevin McGregor
Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 1:08 PM
To: MUUG Roundtable
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? 

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