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# 1  
Old 04-22-2008
how to take image of one and installing that on another machine??? Need help
Hi,

How can I have a clone of one solaris machine on another? I have two sun solaris machines with same hardware and same OS but one has few other software installed.
Now I want to take a backup (image) of one machine remotely because the tape drive is configured on some other LANed machine. And installed that image on another solais machine.
Is it possible to do? Can anyone suggest on this? I tried google a lot but didn't find any appropriate answer.

Please help me in this regards...
Thanks...
# 2  
Old 04-22-2008
have a look at:

Code:
root@lab02 #        man flash_archive
Reformatting page.  Please Wait... done

File Formats                                     flash_archive(4)

NAME
     flash_archive - format of flash archive

SYNOPSIS
     flash_archive

DESCRIPTION
     A flash archive is an  easily  transportable  version  of  a
     reference  configuration  of  the Solaris operating environ-
     ment, plus optional other software. Such an archive is  used
     for  the  rapid  installation of Solaris on large numbers of
     machines. The machine  that  contains  a  flash  archive  is
     referred  to  as  a master system. A machine that receives a
     copy of a flash archive is called a clone system.

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regards PRESSY
# 3  
Old 04-26-2008
thanks...

I did my solaris machine's epoche backup on a tape through a proprietory software and now wanted to load that dump on another solaris machine of same architecture.

I used below command to restore the dump

#ufsrestore rvfs /dev/rmt/0 1

but this is giving me "Media read error: Not enough space" message.

What is the reason of this error?

is there any other command for restoring tape dump.

My aim is to do both system identical

Thanks...
# 4  
Old 04-26-2008
well, "Not enough space"... is the partition where you extract the dump big enough to hold the whole dump?
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