On 1/16/07, Dave Miner <Dave.Miner at sun.com> wrote: > Jacob Ritorto wrote: > > HI, This is only tangentially related to the forum topic, but no > > others seem to be discussing flar, so here goes: I want to use flar > > to do both speedy DR and regular backup for some T2000 machines. I > > made a flar of the machine in its initial deployment state and wanted > > to just do diff flars from then on, which would be small and easy to > > store many on a tape. When I tried to do the diff flar, it was > > unable to read the original flar (using the -A argument to > > flarcreate). Turns out I have to have the image unbundled in its own > > directory for flarcreate to use it to compare. This effectively > > kills my simple plan. Any chance of getting flarcreate to be able to > > read .flar files instead of full directory heirarchies? Any simple > > workaround that you know of? I have no spare machines or disks to > > devote to the cloning and lu methods mentioned in the docs, and > > that's a big waste of space and time anyway..
It seems as though a good approach would be to attach a bart manifest as a section of the flash archive. This would make it so that it would not need to read the entire flar to perform the comparison. > You certainly have the option to log an RFE through service, but it's > unlikely we'd work on it within the next year based on other priorities. Based upon the fact that the flash archive utilities are not slated for being open sourced and new installation mechanisms are under active development, does it even make sense to hold out hope for such improvements? Will the Caiman installer even use flash archives? (I've had a hard time figuring out just how much it will be replacing.) Mike -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/
