Is there any way to create a (image 2

[lumberg]

Is there any way to create a (image)bootable tape for 2.8 ?
Ive havent been able to do it with Jumpstart.
HP has a tool called ignite that does this. Im wondering if SUN has anything like this or if there is 3rd party software that will do this?

Thanks
dennis

 

[rkirkw]

I was looking into the same thing last week.
We are an HP shop, but ordered a Solaris box because some app would only run on Solaris.
Anyway, there is not anything from Sun that gives the make_recovery functionality that HP has or mksysb that AIX has. What I did find however, is a tool called "Bare Metal Recovery" from a company called "The Kernel Group" - Veritas just purchased them this year. It works with Tivoli and Veritas Net Backup. Here is a link to their site:

http://www.tkg.com/products/baremetal/baremetal.php

We already use Veritas Net Backup - so this probably what we will use. I am going to start investigating the cost and how it really works this week - I'll post a follow-up later.

P.S. I am in no way affiliated with Veritas - other than being a customer - this just seemed like the best solution I found so far

 

[cfsalmeida]

Well with since Solaris 8 04/01 you can use a Flash Archive installation in a tape ..., just create a sysidcfg, a flash profile a flash archive and a rules file, then use dd or tar to write the configuration files and the flash archive to the tape, to perform a installation you will only need a flash aware mini root to boot (because Solaris don't boot from tape), you can use for this the Cd-rom or a jumpstart server, and restore tape contents from boot prompt with something like:

{}ok boot cdrom - install tape=/dev/rmt/0n

restore entire system from tape flash archive.

... and it Works !

Hope it helps.

Regards,

Carlos Almeida,

 

[frankj]

Sounds very nice ... how can we create a flash archive ?

Thanks,

FJ,

 

[unixplease]

Try the utility at

http://www.cucumber.demon.co.uk/solaris/sysbkup-0.1.tar.Z.

I have found this to be useful and effective. Let me know your experience.