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Operating Systems Solaris Making HDD backup in sun Solaris system Post 302893027 by Mick on Monday 17th of March 2014 02:54:41 AM
Old 03-17-2014
Thank you for the replies.

First of all, I have determined the actual version of the solaris system under /etc/release.
It is:
Solaris 10 10/09 s10x_u86wo2_08a X86

When you say that it is generally not a good idea, what would you recommend? Please keep in mind that I have no installation disks and data and applications are valuable to me. The best option for me is to have exact copy of the HDD so in case HDD fails I'll have the working system in no time.
Like I said, I have no solaris installation disks nor the installation of actual application we're working with.
I'm totally new to Solaris, but since it's unix based it was my idea to try with dd command.

Is there an alternative but reliable way?

Thank you

P.S. I just want to add that before I had one machine with SCSI drives and SCSI adapter had another output so I could use DAT tape to make backup.

I used tar cv 'ls -1' command. Here I cannot use this way because there is no way to connect DAT tape device.
Last edited by Mick; 03-17-2014 at 04:13 AM..
 

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install-solaris

install-solaris(1M)													       install-solaris(1M)

NAME

       install-solaris - install the Solaris operating system

SYNOPSIS

       install-solaris

       install-solaris	invokes  the  Solaris  Install	program. Depending on graphical capability and available memory at the time of invocation,
       install-solaris invokes either a text-based installer or a graphical installer.

       The following minimum requirements for physical memory dictate which features are available during installation:

       For SPARC machines:

       128 MB

	   Minimum physical memory for all installation types

       128 MB

	   Minimum physical memory required for windowing system

       384 MB

	   Minimum physical memory required for graphical-based installation

       For x86 machines:

       256 MB

	   Minimum physical memory for all installation types

       256 MB

	   Minimum physical memory required for windowing system

       512 MB

	   Minimum physical memory required for graphical-based installation

       In some cases, even if the minimum physical memory is present, available virtual memory after system startup can limit the number  of  fea-
       tures available.

       install-solaris	exists	only  on  the Solaris installation media (CD or DVD) and should be invoked only from there. Refer to the  for more
       details.

       install-solaris allows installation of the operating system onto any standalone system. install-solaris loads the software available on the
       installation media. Refer to the  for disk space requirements.

       Refer to the  for more information on the various menus and selections.

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWcdrom  (Solaris instal-  |
       |			     |lation media)		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	     |Evolving			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

       pkginfo(1), install(1M), pkgadd(1M), attributes(5)

       It is advisable to exit install-solaris by means of the exit options in the install-solaris menus.

								    23 Sep 2005 					       install-solaris(1M)
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