Backing up and restoring to different machine - smaller partition

[bertieb...@gmail.com]

Got my system build, Solaris 10 x86 and I used the whole disk 140Gb
when I did the Solaris install and just used one disk slice (/).

Took me a while to get it working because I had to fiddle with video
settings, get LAN driver, copy over my jumpstart stuff etc so I dont
want to destroy what I've got working.

I've got multiple numbers of these machines to build (exactly the same
hardware). However, I'm planning to dual boot with Windows XP, so I
only want Solaris to take up half the disk.

Whats the best way to do this?

I was thinking of ufsdump or tar the entire /, reinstalling Solaris on
the 70Gb partition and then restoring my save.

Or is there a better way?

[Casper H.S. Dik]

"BertieB...@gmail.com" <bertieb...@gmail.com> writes:

Make a flash argument and install that using jumpstart?

Casper
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[bertieb...@gmail.com]

On Sep 29, 3:45 pm, Casper H.S. Dik <Casper....@Sun.COM> wrote:

Would that allow me to restore to a smaller / partition next time
around?

[Casper H.S. Dik]

"BertieB...@gmail.com" <bertieb...@gmail.com> writes:

>Would that allow me to restore to a smaller / partition next time
>around?

I believe so, yes. The flash doesn't contain a filesystem image, it
contains the files in the filesystem and you can install it on
different systems with different sizes of harddisks/partitions.

[bertieb...@gmail.com]

On Sep 30, 10:14 am, Casper H.S. Dik <Casper....@Sun.COM> wrote:

thanks....

[Cydrome Leader]

In alt.solaris.x86 Casper H.S. Dik <Caspe...@sun.com> wrote:
> "BertieB...@gmail.com" <bertieb...@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>Would that allow me to restore to a smaller / partition next time
>>around?
>
> I believe so, yes. The flash doesn't contain a filesystem image, it
> contains the files in the filesystem and you can install it on
> different systems with different sizes of harddisks/partitions.
>
> Casper

yup, this is correct. jumping a machine with a FLAR is like using Ghost,
it will fit as long as there is space, and adjust the filesystem sizes as
needed (or however you configure it).

[Greg Menke]

Theres more to it. I've used flar to move between motherboards and
between disk sizes, on both x86 and sparc hardware. Works a treat- but
make sure the flar image has any non-system stuff on it that you want,
before the old system is repurposed or whatever. Flar has a habit of
not backing up some system and non-system stuff.

Greg

[Canuck57]

"Greg Menke" <gus...@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:86my4c9...@apshai.pienet...

If he reads the man page for sys-unconfig it will hint to what a flarcreate
will undo. But I concur, flarcreate is the way to go as once perfected it
is a great way to copy a system image around and to use as backups.

In fact, when replacing a x86 image, I prep the new installs in VMWare or
VirtualBox and then use the VM to not only make the flarcreate but to
install it. Since my laptop has a 1000BT, with a crossover cable directly
attached you never saw a system install so fast. Once installed, change the
IP and you are up and running.

[bertieb...@gmail.com]

If I do flarcreate and want to backup the / filesystem, do I have to
create the flar on a separate fs or can i create in / ?