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 > OpenSolaris system. > > I've also used Drive Snapshot to image Windows and Linux systems. It > might work for Opensolaris as well. It would create a block level > backup, and the restore might not work on a system which isn't > identical. http://www.drivesnapshot.de/en/
On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 23:01 -0700, Ross wrote: > 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 drive if you can't boot your > computer otherwise. > 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. If he wanted that he could just use dd (or partimage for a slight optimisation). =P -Albert _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
