[rescue] Imaging Solaris 2.5 without SCSI devices

Patrick Giagnocavo patrick at zill.net
Mon Dec 5 16:32:54 CST 2011


On 12/5/2011 4:54 PM, Ian Finder wrote:
> So, I've dug out my broken old SB 3GX (works with external input
> devices), which has a fairly stock Solaris 2.5 install with CDE and
> OpenWindows, and NCE.
> 
> I'd like to make a restorable, potentially bootable backup image of
> the drive before I mess too much of the configuration up.
> 
> Does anyone know the best way of doing this short of dding the disc to
> a 1GB external SCSI drive?
> 
> -- Ian
> 
> --

Pipe or dump to a file over SSH?

Also found this during a quick google...

http://www.freddenny.com/UNIX/clone.html


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