Robert,
Was looking forward to using packages on Solaris 10. Currently I have an
SMF definition from lord knows where, but my package is source -- packages
will save me a lot of time, as there will likely be more and more of these
things running Solaris 10.
Luckily, my backup worked... I was not restoring to a live system, but
instead to a mounted target, which worked like a charm. The one hangup was
that I didn't know that installboot existed (though I suspected, a
co-worker did not think anything was necessary if the OS was on the
volume). I also (for obvious reasons) added a mirror at this point, which
complicated things a bit further (one needed to run metaroot, etc).
I'll look over your notes when you send them... in the meantime, I'm going
to prepare a backup of the machine that is due to be repurposed so that
I'll have a starting point for a full restore.
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On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Robert W Hartzell wrote:
On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 12:24, Ryan Novosielski wrote:
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Robert W Hartzell wrote:
Is this project of interest to any one? Any thoughts or comments?
Robert,
Though the thread might not be one that you've been following, check out
the "Rescue Advice for Director" thread. I was just discussing Solaris
bare metal recovery earlier today. I'm very interested in this project.
It seems you are using x86, but so are my client machines. My director
is Sparc, but I don't see any reason this should be that different. What
Solaris version are you working with here? Solaris 10u1 uses GRUB
instead of... OpenBoot is it? I don't recall, at least on the x86 platform.
I'd love to give it a shot on one of my machines. As I said in the other
thread, I have at least 1 Solaris box due to be repurposed. I can do any
number of destructive tests on it.
Ryan,
I found myself in a similar situation while testing restores with a client and
the whole restore process was at best a horrible experience and very time
consuming. I never got a usable restore and had to start from scratch anyways.
What I did then was to install a base install with networking and then
installed the file daemon for a full restore. The full restore wouldn't boot so
I had to start over. I think there's some files that shouldn't be overwritten
during a restore on a live system (/etc/path_to_inst) is one that gave me
problems.
I'm pretty sure I used Solaris 10-1/06 x86 which does include GRUB but fully
patched 10-03/05 also includes GRUB. I really don't know if GRUB was back
ported to Solaris 9.
I will put together my notes and send them to you tonight. What you will need
is a CD burner, the fist CD for Solaris 01/06 (to steal the miniroot) and a
static copy of the file daemon with your config files. It's fairly easy to
build the CD.
On another subject I have created packages for bacula controlled by SMF. Would
you mind installing then on one of your x86 boxes and let me know what you
think? They do require mysql thats installed in /usr/sfw/ on a full install,
but the bacula scripts take care of setting up and starting mysql. Their non
destructive and a few key strokes will remove any evidence they were ever
installed.
Robert
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