How to make a backup system (aix mksysb) in Solaris

[Guest_imported]

HI
How to make a system backup in Solaris, to have a bootable tape with the sytem configuration ..; something like the mksysb in AIX.

 

[Winstonb]

Can't be done as is on AIX, but veritas have a netbackup product called BMR which wil do this over the network.

 

[KenCunningham]

I've also heard good things about Lone Tar and it's 'airbag' though I've been fortunate enough not to have to use it. There's other useful threads on this in here - do a search on 'boot tape' in this forum. Cheers.

 

[jimbopalmer]

I confess I cheat. I put a second OS drive on my servers and cron a job to mirror them.

#!/bin/sh
#
/usr/bin/dd if=/dev/dsk/c2t1d0s0 of=/dev/dsk/c2t2d0s0
/usr/bin/dd if=/dev/dsk/c2t1d0s6 of=/dev/dsk/c2t2d0s6
/usr/bin/dd if=/dev/dsk/c2t1d0s1 of=/dev/dsk/c2t2d0s1
/usr/bin/dd if=/dev/dsk/c2t1d0s5 of=/dev/dsk/c2t2d0s5
fsck -y /dev/dsk/c2t2d0s0
fsck -y /dev/dsk/c2t2d0s6
fsck -y /dev/dsk/c2t2d0s1
fsck -y /dev/dsk/c2t2d0s5

If my boot drive fails I change the SCSI addresses and boot from the nightly copy I tried to remain child-like, all I acheived was childish.

 

[lumberg]

on solaris 8 check out flarcreate. Ive been meaning to dig into it myself but I have other stuff going on.You can read about it in the solaris8 advanced installation guide.