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Hi Gurus

I have a sun V210 server running a variety of apps. I generally do my
backups using standard unix tools (cpio). I would like your views on the
best method for backing up a sun server for disaster recovery purpouses. I
would like a straight forward one step process for re-creating myu server
should i loose a disk or should the whole thing be crushed by a 10 ton lorry
and needs to be set up on another bit if hardware.

many thanks
#regards
dean

In article <[email protected]>, "a" <b> wrote:

> Hi Gurus
>
> I have a sun V210 server running a variety of apps. I generally do my
> backups using standard unix tools (cpio). I would like your views on the
> best method for backing up a sun server for disaster recovery purpouses. I
> would like a straight forward one step process for re-creating myu server
> should i loose a disk or should the whole thing be crushed by a 10 ton lorry
> and needs to be set up on another bit if hardware.
>
> many thanks
> #regards
> dean

Here's some general guidelines:

Solaris doesn't have a "bare metal restore" bootable tape akin to mksysb
on AIX or the Ignite bootable tape, so you'll have to rebuild from
install media. The standard practice is to keep the installation media,
printouts of any volume layouts and patches installed, copies of any
software and license keys (e.g. Veritas Volume Manager--VxVM), and
hardcopy of other system information (DNS, router, printers, etc.). Oh,
and you'll need a full set of your last full backup plus the most recent
differential incremental.

If you're restoring the system to the same hardware, just with disks
replaced, boot from install media, layout the system disks the way they
were in the original (or change them if they need larger slices--this is
the perfect time to do that). Load the