Recovering SunSolaris

[Gerryog]

Hi

We have a Sun Solaris server : Sun 44 Sparc Sunw ultra 250 running our firewall .
It is running Sun 5.6 generic 105181-17 . We plan to do a disaster recovery test sortly and some of our remote link to our external companies go out thru the firewall.

We are running Checkpoint on the F/W and will require the firewall recovered at our hotsite.

At present we are backing up the firewall each night but i'm not totally 100% sure what is being backed up .


How do you make a system backup on the Sun machine. ?

I know in AIX you can run off a MKSYSB (Make system Backup ) to backup all the BOS filesets and then stick this tape into the boot tape drive and stick your Distribution cd's in the CD and turn on the machine and it will rebuild the BOS on the new machine and build any drives its specifically requires for the new hardware. Then restore all the volume groups

Is there a similar facility in Solaris.

If somebody has done this I appreciate some direction.

GERRYOG
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[sun23]

Hi
Take a level 0 (full backup) of all filesystems.Write a script using ufsdump command and put it in your cron.
Use the non-rewind mode of the DLT.It may span multiple tapes based on the data you have!.It is better to take the full back up in single user mode!Note down your vfstab and dfstab entries.Note down the partition table as well.
If you want ,you can have an extra copy of important files like passwd ,group etc.
Hope this helps!!!
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[Gerryog]

Sun23

Thanks very much for the quick response. Yes it helps . I will check how we currently run our backups. Have you any ideaa on the restore/rebuild process... Is it a complete rebuild of OS from Installation CD's or is there a MKSYSB utilitiy like AIX.

Gerryog.
Email : Gerard.ogrady@ireland.com
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