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Operating Systems Solaris Backup the Solaris OS Post 302383622 by incredible on Wednesday 30th of December 2009 10:33:04 AM
Old 12-30-2009
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Originally Posted by reborg
Not always. In order to be able to restore you need to have a Solaris boot DVD or jumpstart server, and must follow the flash installation or live upgrade process. You also have to know the information about ip address/hotname etc. and reenter it correctly for the root disk to be as it was before the restore and then you also need to put vfstab and dfstab back as it was.

With ufsdump/ufsrestore there is often no need to do most of this, it is also more flexible for restoring to an offline mirror.
Not really a big problem here. You can always have a latest copy of the system's explorer for reference. I don't think its really a tedious task
 

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suninstall(1M)						  System Administration Commands					    suninstall(1M)

NAME
suninstall - install the Solaris operating system SYNOPSIS
suninstall DESCRIPTION
install-solaris(1M) is now the preferred command for starting and restarting the Solaris Installation program. It should be used instead of suninstall. suninstall is symbolically linked to install-solaris. suninstall is a forms-based and graphical subsystem for installing the operating system. suninstall exists only on the Solaris installation media (CD or DVD) and should only be invoked from there. Refer to the Solaris 10 Instal- lation Guide: Basic Installations for more details. suninstall allows installation of the operating system onto any standalone system. suninstall loads the software available on the installa- tion media. Refer to the Solaris 10 Installation Guide: Basic Installations for disk space requirements. USAGE
Refer to the Solaris 10 Installation Guide: Basic Installations for more information on the various menus and selections. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcdrom (Solaris instal- | | |lation media) | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
pkginfo(1), install(1M), install-solaris(1M), pkgadd(1M), attributes(5) Solaris 10 Installation Guide: Basic Installations NOTES
It is advisable to exit suninstall by means of the exit options in the suninstall menus. SunOS 5.10 9 Sep 2004 suninstall(1M)
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