How to clone Solaris environment ?

[bad.s...@gmail.com]

Hi!

I would like to make clone (backup) of Solaris sparc environment using
command line commands. I have root access vis SSH , SFTP to the
environment.

Next I would like to install this clone on new hardware.

In Window$ this functionality is supported by Clonezilla or Norton
Ghost

Thanks a lot,

Bad.

[Richard B. Gilbert]

Bad bad!

man flar

This will make an archive that can be installed on identical or highly
similar hardware. If the target hardware differs significantly from
the source hardware, you WILL have problems; messy problems! Support
for the different hardware may not be installed, etc, etc.

You could simply install the disk in a PC and use Norton Ghost. There's
a mode that does a byte for byte copy. The problems mentioned above
apply equally; if the target hardware is not identical to the source,
you should expect problems.

[Colin B.]

Flash Archives (FLAR) is the closest parallel. I've often wondered at the
lack of a simple clone/restore feature in Solaris. However, there are a
few reasons for it.

1) ufsdump/ufsrestore has provided this functionality for decades.
2) Cloning a system really isn't the best way to build systems, and
never has been. Building a system from base media with packages
and patches and users (etc.) added afterwards is a far cleaner process.
Luckily, this can be automated and maintained with Jumpstart.

The older I get, the more I realise that cloning is almost always the
wrong solution to a problem.

Colin

["Thommy M. Malmström"]

It's like if you have cloned children, you miss the best part... ;-)

[Nomen Publicus]

bad.s...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I would like to make clone (backup) of Solaris sparc environment using
> command line commands. I have root access vis SSH , SFTP to the
> environment.
>
> Next I would like to install this clone on new hardware.

Read the Sun docs on "flash archives" and network installations.

A flash archive is a snapshot of a system which can be used to install a
copy of the system on similar hardware.

This article
http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/content/submitted/flash_archive.jsp
describes the general process using tape storage, but you can use NFS or
web server to hold the flash archive and the procedure is the same.

>
> In Window$ this functionality is supported by Clonezilla or Norton
> Ghost
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> Bad.

--
2001 Census: 1 in 7 people in the UK is a declared atheist.

[Element_SN]

make a jumpstart server;
make an image of the server you like to clone;
use that image as your jumpstart image.

simple