02-28-2014
Restoring a system from a backup
I have backed up the contents of my Solaris 10 machine in its entirety, and I'm trying to figure out if I can somehow use this archive to restore my old system just as it was on a new machine. Assuming I have all files from my old machine backed up, is this possible?
What I've been trying to do is create a new machine with the same filesystem layout as my original machine, install the same version of Solaris on it, and then replace the data with the data from my backup but this did not work.
There are probably certain directories that I should not overwrite with the contents of my backup (/boot? /dev?) but I'm not sure which.
Is there any way to restore or recreate my original system just as it was, if I have all of the contents backed up?
EDIT: I didn't want to bump an old post to say thanks, so I'll put it here. Thanks hicksd8 for the help!
Last edited by unblockable; 03-25-2014 at 01:28 PM..
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