I want to try using Ufsdump for backups .
The man pages state that the file systems should be inactive or be in the unmounted state .
But for that system should be in single User mode.
My query is that can we perform Ufsdump in run-level 3 ?
And if no should I have to reboot it in Single user... (3 Replies)
Hello all,
I was wondering is it possible to install Solaris over the network whit jumpstart and just ufsretore a dump file? The clinet's disk would totally be empty. I know that I can use the rules files, would I put the command to uferestore from the server in the pre install rules file. I... (0 Replies)
hi
i would like to backup my OS
what is the exact command to do?
beside backup to tapes can i back up to a directory in another server?
will the command be the same?
thanks. :confused: (4 Replies)
Hi,
I want to how to take backup of File system From Disk to Disk using ufsdump?
Wheather we can take the backup of root file system from one disk to another if tape drive is not available? wheather it is reliable to restore root file system? (2 Replies)
I ran this dump (as root) and got the following.............
# ufsdump 0f /dev/rmt/0n /
DUMP: Writing 32 Kilobyte records
DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Tue 11 Dec 2007 06:07:35 AM PST
DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch
DUMP: Dumping /dev/rdsk/c2t1d0s0 (gambler:/) to... (1 Reply)
I just completed a level 0 ufsdump of the following files:-
ufsdump 0uf /dev/rmt/0n /
ufsdump 0uf /dev/rmt/0n /usr
ufsdump 0uf /dev/rmt/0n /export/home
ufsdump 0uf /dev/rmt/0n /oracle
ufsdump 0uf /dev/rmt/0n /sapr3
I need to restore ALL the files onto a different machine and continue... (1 Reply)
HI Gurus,
I have a sunfire V445 server running SAP ECC 6.0 with an Oracle database on Solaris 9 (SunOS 5.9). I recently completed a ufsdump to tape of the following files:-
/,
/usr,
/oracle,
/export,
/sapr3,
I want to restore these files from tape onto a different server of the same... (5 Replies)
Hi,
I have 5 soraris boxes and i am trying to backup all to SAN.Which backup is more suitable tar or ufsdump? Also pls mention what are the important folders i need to back up.
Thanks (3 Replies)
People i have 2 sun sparc solaris 10.
I have one filesystem to 98% and i need to do a ufsdump of that filesystem.
THe problem is that i don't have space to allocate the dump of the filesystem.
Thats why i want to do it from the other sun and bring the ufs dump to de /FREE filesystem.
... (4 Replies)
Hi all,
I have a Solaris 10 running on a M4000.
I wanted to migrate it to M10
q1) can I do a ufsdump on / in the m4000 and restore it on the m10 ?
q2) how do we ufsrestore on the naked M10 without any OS being install/running in the 1st place ?
q3) if the answer to the... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: javanoob
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
dds-dd
dds-dd(1) General Commands Manual dds-dd(1)NAME
dds-dd - tool to read a dds device.
SYNOPSIS
dds-dd [ -f device ]
DESCRIPTION
dds-dd reads a dds tape devices (DAT). Every block is read and written to stdout. A tape with unknown block size or blocks of different
size can be read.
The default device is /dev/rmt0, which may be overridden with the environment variable TAPE, which in turn may be overridden with the
-f device option. The device must be a character special file.
OPTIONS -f device
Device of the tape archive (default is /dev/rmt0). Must be a character special file connected to a dds tape device.
-V,--version
Print the version number of mt-dds to stderr and exit immediately.
--help print some screens of online help with examples through a pager and exit immediately.
EXAMPLES
Example: Read the tape and make a listing:
dds-dd | tar ft -
Example: Read the tape and make a listing:
dds-dd | cpio -it
ENVIRONMENT
The environment variable TAPE overrides the default tape device /dev/rmt0.
SEE ALSO
dds2tar(1), dds2index(1), mt(1), tar(1)HISTORY
This program was created to use it in conjunction with dds2tar.
AUTHOR
J"org Weule (weule@cs.uni-duesseldorf.de), Phone +49 211 751409. This software is available at ftp.uni-duesseldorf.de:/pub/unix/apollo
2.4 dds-dd(1)