Hi Peter, Do you have any notes on what you did to restore a sendfile to an existing BE?
I'm interested in creating a 'golden image' and restring this into a new BE on a running system as part of a hardening project. Thanks Peter 2009/9/14 Peter Karlsson <peter.karls...@sun.com>: > Hi Greg, > > We did a hack on those lines when we installed 100 Ultra 27s that was used > during J1, but we automated the process by using AI to install a bootstrap > image that had a SMF service that pulled over the zfs sendfile, create a new > BE and received the sendfile to the new BE. Work fairly OK, there where a > few things that we to run a few scripts to fix, but at large it was > smooth.... I really need to get that blog entry done :) > > /peter > > Greg Mason wrote: >> >> As an alternative, I've been taking a snapshot of rpool on the golden >> system, sending it to a file, and creating a boot environment from the >> archived snapshot on target systems. After fiddling with the snapshots a >> little, I then either appropriately anonymize the system or provide it with >> its identity. When it boots up, it's ready to go. >> >> The only downfall to my method is that I still have to run the full >> OpenSolaris installer, and I can't exclude anything in the archive. >> >> Essentially, it's a poor man's flash archive. >> >> -Greg >> >> cindy.swearin...@sun.com wrote: >>> >>> Hi RB, >>> >>> We have a draft of the ZFS/flar image support here: >>> >>> http://opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/boot/flash/ >>> >>> Make sure you review the Solaris OS requirements. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Cindy >>> >>> On 09/14/09 11:45, RB wrote: >>>> >>>> Is it possible to create flar image of ZFS root filesystem to install it >>>> to other macines? >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> zfs-discuss mailing list >>> zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org >>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> zfs-discuss mailing list >> zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
