January 2007
Intermediate to advanced
760 pages
25h 14m
English
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Chapter 10. Solaris Bare-Metal Recovery
Flash archive is a flexible, transportable, and easy-to-use utility that can perform
installation, cloning, and bare-metal recovery of Solaris
systems. Sun documentation presents this product primarily as a cloning and installation
tool. However, since you can create an image from a running operating system and then use
that image during a boot process to “install” that image to a vanilla system, it makes a
perfectly good bare-metal recovery tool, and that is what I focus on in this chapter. It can
be likened to the AIX mksysb command because it works
very similarly.
Flash archive eliminates all the limitations of the Solaris
ufsrestore utility, which required that all systems
have the same hardware, kernel, and device tree set up in order to perform
bare-metal recovery. Flash archive is
available for Solaris 8 and above, and is fully supported across the full line of Sun
servers using either 32- or 64-bit kernels.
Tip
This chapter was contributed by Aaron Gersztoff. Aaron has worked in the enterprise data protection and disaster recovery fields for over 10 years and is an avid baseball fan who has aspirations of visiting every park in the major leagues.
Using Flash Archive
The following section gives you an overview of how flash archive can be used to perform bare-metal recoveries. It also provides a list of setup questions to consider when setting up flash archive.
Backup and Recovery Overview
The following is a quick overview of the basic process ...
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