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Hi,

I have not been working with Solaris for more than 10 years ago. Many things and details have ben forgotten. Hopes that some could help me with the problem. We used this scripts (below) for daily backup.

The problems is following:
I want to backup all partions/slice on a specific Solaris server to a tape device through crontab every day. The first part of the tape contains a scripts that will be used for automatic restore if something went wrong. It means that the first part of the tape contains a script, and the second part of the tape contians the daily backups.

If we need to restore the hole server, it's sufficient to boot the server from the tapedevice. The scripts will be run ant the restore job will start automatic. When the jobs is done the server is rebuilt to the latest version.

Assume it's necessary to use cron, dd, mt

We used this scripts for more than 10 years ago. Maybe it's possible to use other methods today. I also know that HP-UX have a simular tools built into the operating system.
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