Two things I should mention: First. Assuimg "The Worst Happened", to then restore a system for which you have a flar backup onto another system, which may have non-identical hardware, you just boot from the OS disk, and in stead of a Default Install you select a FLAR install. This option is available in the text-mode installer.
After you selected that you want to install from flar, you need to tell it where to find the flar file. The file can be on another system, shared via NFS, or a DVD, or a tape, etc. Second: The new SunOS 5.11 "Beta" version of the manual have a more up to date flar admin page, instead of me quoting again, see it here: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-2240/flar-1m?l=en&q=flar%281m%29&a=view On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Johan Hartzenberg <jhartzen at gmail.com>wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 5:18 AM, Antonius <antoniuso at gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> 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. >> > > look at man flar. > > From the online version: > DESCRIPTION > > The flar command is used to administer flash archives. A flash archive > is an easily transportable version of a reference configuration of the > Solaris operating environment, plus optional other software. Such an > archive > is used for the rapid installation of Solaris on large numbers of machines. > You use the > flarcreate(1M)<http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-0211/6m6nc66qi?a=view>to > create a flash archive. > > The flar command includes subcommands for extracting information, > splitting archives, and combining them. Subcommands are indicated by the > first option in a flar command line. These options are as follows: > > > _hartz > > -- > Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. > Arthur C. Clarke > > My blog: http://initialprogramload.blogspot.com > > > -- Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke My blog: http://initialprogramload.blogspot.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-help/attachments/20081010/777e4932/attachment.html>
