Hi, I have a Solaris 10 x86 server with 2 hard disks running on mirrored UFS configuration.
Currently we are trying to implement a OS backup solution using Networker 7.6. I can successfully backup the OS to a remote Networker server. But now the trouble is if I need to perform a full Solaris OS restore, I need to perform an installation of the Solaris 10 base OS and install Networker 7.6 client to call back the data from that Networker server. However I do not like the idea of restoring the Solaris OS by overwriting an existing installation. Hence, I thought of a way by performing an initial installation of the Solaris 10 base OS and Networker on the second disk. Then partition and newfs the first disk and then restore the OS from the Networker server to that first disk. The server is able to function correctly upon reboot. Subsequently the second disk is mirrored to the first disk. The above solution works perfectly but now with things on ZFS, it becomes more complex. Does anyone know if I can perform the above with ZFS filesystem (excluding the Networker setup)? I just need to know the following: 1) create a ZFS filesystem on the first disk (with similar ZFS configuration before the server failed) 2) install the bootblk on that first disk 3) Upon reboot, mirror the first disk to the second using zfs If the above 2 can be done then performing the OS restore to that disk (assuming that the base OS and Networker client was installed on the second disk) should not be an issue. regards, LD -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
