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Old 08-05-2002
make recovery tape for solaris

Hello All

I am need of amke recover tape for solaris.Could anybody tell me how do i create a make recovery tape for solaris.I am on sun-solaris 2.8

regards
Hrishy
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Old 08-05-2002
read the man pages on ufsdump and ufsrestore. this should do it. if not, email me and I'll send you some labs I use in the class room specifically for this purpose.
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Old 08-09-2002
Hi Manderson

I am curious about yopur scripts ? can you post them here .i wanna know what kind of scripts are you using

regards
Hrishy
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