Hi Dale, Can't really suggest anything better than tar (:
However, with regard to your upcoming Oracle install... You will be dropping many things during your first install - I guarantee it! However, very little will affect the system itself - just the kernel tuning bits. The rest should be on separate partitions that wipe clean easily! I'd write a little script that reformats /u0, /u02, etc and deletes the files put in /usr/local/bin and /etc, so you can start again easily. If you have any problems, then feel free to contact me off list - I've done this lots of times before (: Cheers, Steve PS. As a matter of preference, I'd use CentOS ( RHEL4 clone ) or WhiteBox ( RHEL3 ) rather than SLES. Couldn't give you a real reason, it's just always worked better that way for me. On Mon, August 15, 2005 2:45 pm, Dale & Yvonne Ogilvie said: > Hi, > > > > I've just installed SLES8+various patches on a new HP server. It would be > nice to copy the state of the server off to an image that could be copied > back onto the server if I "drop the ball" during the upcoming oracle > install. Is there some magic software that will image it off to CD so that > this image can be replayed back onto bare partitions later... The server > has about 1.7G of SLES on it right now. > > > > Does anyone have any suggestions as to what I could use here? > > > > Thanks > > > > Dale > -- Windows: Where do you want to go today? MacOS: Where do you want to be tomorrow? Linux: Are you coming or what?
