I?ve fairly recently got my opensolaris home server running pretty near to exactly how I want it with a bit of help from some posts here. Now that that?s done I want to do a system level backup rather than piping out a bunch of config files and having to re-install and config again should the worst happen. All my data is stored separately on zfs raidz sets. The OS is installed on a 300GB IDE HDD. I think only approx 8GB are used. As it?s a home server there is no problem shutting it down, physically removing the system disk and placing in another system should it be required or anything like that.
I?ve looked up a few potential solutions so far, but have yet to find one that sounds like it?s absolutely ?it?. What else is everyone else using? My priorities are basically as follows: Backup entire system so that it can be restored via a single process being kicked off Have some way of sensibly storing the image file (eg spanned across DVDs, a reasonably compressed file, etc.) that will allow for me to store a few spare copies. Being able to push the install to a smaller capacity faster hard disk (if possible) Lastly if an easy solution doesn?t exist to know how to best configure future builds to satisfy any requirements to achieve this. After that I?ll probably mirror the system disk too. I wasn?t thinking the current build would be good enough to move into production use so to speak. Any suggestions, especially good/bad experiences with particular solutions? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
