Clone???

[De8o]

Could somebody give me an idea of how to make an exact copy of a Sun Solaris box [sig][/sig]

 

[bigscouse]

What exactly do you mean by exact copy? [sig]<p>Ged Jones<br><a href=mailto:gedejones@hotmail.com>gedejones@hotmail.com</a><br><a href= > </a><br>Top man[/sig]

 

[De8o]

It is for the purpose of disaster recovey. So that a cloned machine can be off site and then be used instead of the original with little or no configuration. [sig][/sig]

 

[abovebrd]

You could use the dd command to make a exact image of your hard drive.

I am not sure of what the complete syntax should look like. But I hope it's a starting point.

[sig]<p>-Danny<br><a href=mailto: > </a><br><a href= > </a><br>Does it ever get easier !<br>
Oh well. <br>
<br>
Party on dude ![/sig]

 

[jdevan]

Assume your system disk is c0t0d0 and
u have a spare disk c0t4d0 of same geometry.
make sure that there are no much activities on the system or try during night hours
say, thru a cron job.

#dd if=/dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s2 of=/dev/rdsk/c0t4d0s2 bs=128k

(may take some time depending on the size
of the disk)

After dd is over , do fsck for all the file systems on c0t4d0.
Now u got a clone disk !!! Remove c0t4d0
and keep it safe.
Try it out. Iam using this technique for the last 4 years.

Cheers!!
jay



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[abovebrd]

Thanks for the specifics jay. I knew it could be done.

[sig]<p>-Danny<br><a href=mailto: > </a><br><a href= > </a><br>Does it ever get easier !<br>
Oh well. <br>
<br>
Party on dude ![/sig]

 

[De8o]

excellent tip..
much thanks

Darren [sig][/sig]