Solaris 10: How to create a full system image. (Like Ghost)
961722Oct 22 2012 — edited Nov 21 2012Hello all,
[I’m rather new to Solaris, so pardon me if this is a simple question.]
What would be a simple way to create full machine image of a physical Solaris 10 box suitable for an easy bare-metal restore on the same machine. The machine has one UFS system drive and one ZFS data storage drive.
Making this a VM is not an option. Both drives are large, but have only a small amount of data, so I’d like to create an image that just saves the used file system blocks.
Destination would be a 3rd local drive added to the system.
Incremental images would be nice, but hardly seems worth the bother since the image files will be so small.
I did not find any simple commercial product like Norton Ghost or True Image that supports Solaris 10. Does such a thing exist?
From searching on Google I see a couple of other options:
1. Use "Jumpstart". I don’t really know what this is, but it seems very powerfull and very popular. But, I wonder if it’s an overkill for my needs.
2. Use a combination of "ufsdump"and "zfs send". But, obviously I need more than this for a bare metal restore. Boot loaders and partition tables come to mind.
Which option do you guys recommend?
Thank you