Hello, Quoting Scott Howard from his weblog
"Flash archives are designed for quick deployment of like servers, where like is defined in terms of the software installed, and not (necessarily) the hardware involved. By design what is "restored" from a flash archive is deliberately different to what was flashed, with many of the OS configuration files being deliberately deleted and/or re-created during the flash process. This includes things like /etc/hosts, /etc/hostname.*, /etc/netmasks, /etc/path_to_inst, the entire /dev and /devices trees and some others. So in effect, what you put in is NOT what you get back out. But the very definition of a backup/restore is that you get back exactly what you started with. ufsdump (or any commercial backup software) will give you a restored machine which looks exactly like what you started with." Is that true? My impression from Sun's documentations is that you can use flash archives to quickly install identical disk images on identical workstation. Thanks Quyen This message posted from opensolaris.org
