Ghost should work just fine. It's not just a windows program, it's best used
on a bootable cd or floppy (or network boot for the adventurous), and it'll
backup any hard drive, not just windows.
If you're using ghost it's always best to have a bootable CD or similar, since
you can recover the
On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 11:53 -0700, Brandon High wrote:
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 12:44 AM, Aubrey Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
for windows we use ghost to backup system and recovery.
can we do similar thing for solaris by ZFS?
You could probably use a Ghost bootdisk to create an image of a
Hi Erik,
Thanks for your instruction, but let me dig into details.
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 10:04 PM, Erik Trimble [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thus, you could do this:
(1) Install system A
No problem, :-)
(2) hook USB drive to A, and mount it at /mnt
I created a zfs pool, and mount it at
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 12:23 AM, Aubrey Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here, zfs send tank/root /mnt/root doesn't work, zfs send can't accept
a directory as an output. So I use zfs send and zfs receive:
Really? zfs send just gives you a byte stream, and the shell redirects
it to the file root in
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 11:37 PM, Albert Lee
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Raw disk images are, uh, nice and all, but I don't think that was what
Aubrey had in mind when asking zfs-discuss about a backup solution. This
is 2008, not 1960.
But retro is in!
The point that I didn't really make is that
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 10:41 PM, Brandon High [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 12:23 AM, Aubrey Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here, zfs send tank/root /mnt/root doesn't work, zfs send can't accept
a directory as an output. So I use zfs send and zfs receive:
Really? zfs send just
Hi list,
for windows we use ghost to backup system and recovery.
can we do similar thing for solaris by ZFS?
I want to create a image and install to another machine,
So that the personal configuration will not be lost.
Thanks,
-Aubrey
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Hi list,
for windows we use ghost to backup system and
recovery.
can we do similar thing for solaris by ZFS?
I want to create a image and install to another
machine,
So that the personal configuration will not be lost.
Since I don't do Windows, I'm not familiar with ghost, but I gather
On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 15:44 +0800, Aubrey Li wrote:
for windows we use ghost to backup system and recovery.
can we do similar thing for solaris by ZFS?
How about flar ?
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-5668/flash-24?a=view
[ I'm actually not sure if it's supported for zfs root though ]
On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 15:44 +0800, Aubrey Li wrote:
for windows we use ghost to backup system and
recovery.
can we do similar thing for solaris by ZFS?
How about flar ?
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-5668/flash-24?a=v
iew
[ I'm actually not sure if it's supported for zfs
root
Tim Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 15:44 +0800, Aubrey Li wrote:
for windows we use ghost to backup system and recovery.
can we do similar thing for solaris by ZFS?
How about flar ?
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-5668/flash-24?a=view
[ I'm actually not sure
Richard L. Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Zfs has send and receive commands, which more or less correspond to
ufsdump and ufsrestore for ufs, except that the names send and receive
are perhaps more appropriate, since the zfs(1m) man page says:
The format of the stream is evolving. No
Hey Joerg,
On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 13:47 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote:
How about flar ?
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-5668/flash-24?a=view
[ I'm actually not sure if it's supported for zfs root though ]
Isn't flar based on the outdated cpio?
cpio was updated to support ZFS ACLs as
Joerg Schilling wrote:
Richard L. Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Zfs has send and receive commands, which more or less correspond to
ufsdump and ufsrestore for ufs, except that the names send and receive
are perhaps more appropriate, since the zfs(1m) man page says:
The format
Tim Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey Joerg,
On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 13:47 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote:
How about flar ?
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-5668/flash-24?a=view
[ I'm actually not sure if it's supported for zfs root though ]
Isn't flar based on the outdated
Erik Trimble [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
bare-metal restore generally means that you give it a piece of
hardware with nothing installed on it, boot it somehow, and the
restore program can bring the machine all the way back up to a
previously-stored state.
Norton Ghost has two main purposes,
Joerg Schilling wrote:
Tim Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey Joerg,
On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 13:47 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote:
How about flar ?
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-5668/flash-24?a=view
[ I'm actually not sure if it's supported for zfs root though ]
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 7:03 PM, Richard L. Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi list,
for windows we use ghost to backup system and
recovery.
can we do similar thing for solaris by ZFS?
I want to create a image and install to another
machine,
So that the personal configuration will not be
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 7:30 PM, Richard L. Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 15:44 +0800, Aubrey Li wrote:
for windows we use ghost to backup system and
recovery.
can we do similar thing for solaris by ZFS?
How about flar ?
Aubrey Li wrote:
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 7:30 PM, Richard L. Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 15:44 +0800, Aubrey Li wrote:
for windows we use ghost to backup system and
recovery.
can we do similar thing for solaris by ZFS?
How
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 9:49 PM, Erik Trimble [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Aubrey Li wrote:
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 7:30 PM, Richard L. Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 15:44 +0800, Aubrey Li wrote:
for windows we use ghost to backup system and
recovery.
can we do
Aubrey Li wrote:
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 7:03 PM, Richard L. Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi list,
for windows we use ghost to backup system and
recovery.
can we do similar thing for solaris by ZFS?
I want to create a image and install to another
machine,
So that the personal
Aubrey Li wrote:
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 9:49 PM, Erik Trimble [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm pretty sure that OpenSolaris 2008.5 is the same a Nevada b89, which
definite _does_ have flar.
No, OpenSolaris 200805 is based on b86, not b89.
And if you read indiana mailing list, you'll
Tim Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
P.S.: I am talking about the cpio program creating cpio archives and this
is
what I believe happens in flar.
Not so sure - man flash_archive(4) you can choose the archiver you want
it to use. In terms of flar being extensible, it doesn't matter - the
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 12:44 AM, Aubrey Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
for windows we use ghost to backup system and recovery.
can we do similar thing for solaris by ZFS?
You could probably use a Ghost bootdisk to create an image of a
OpenSolaris system.
I've also used Drive Snapshot to image
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