From: Bill R. Williams (brwms@etsu.edu)
Date: Fri Nov 19 2004 - 17:33:04 EST
I have been looking around and so far haven't found the answer to
this:
I want to have a bare-metal disaster recovery method in place for my
SunFire V880 and 280R Systems running Solaris 9. The filesystems are
meta devices.
Ideally, I would like something similar to what I have on my Linux
systems: A backup-created image that I can boot and with a single
command recreate the system as it was when the backup was run.
I just boot the CD-ROM recovery medium (created by mondo/mindi) and
when it finishes, remove the CD, reboot the system, and it comes up
running.
(mondoarchive -- provides me with this "Boot and Go" recovery.)
A "One Touch" Recovery is not looking promising for Solaris.
I've been playing with flash archive; it works as advertised.
What flasharchive does NOT do that I would really like to have is a
backup which will replicate the disk layout before it proceeds. To
further complicate things, my Solaris 9 Systems all have Solaris
Volume Mananger (SVM) meta disks, and this setup appears to be
software RAID, or at least acts like it.
I would really like to hear from any of you experienced Solaris
SysAdmins who have a "fast turnaround" bare-metal disaster recovery
method in place. Especially if you have your disks set up as meta
devices under SVM.
I have looked around but haven't found precisely what I want:
A method whereby I can take a portable backup and recreate/duplicate a
production system on another matching SunFire.
ANY hints, tips, check lists, cookbooks, etc. would really be
welcomed. I will summarize.
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