[rescue] Imaging Solaris 2.5 without SCSI devices

[Ian Finder]

Thanks Carl.

I have a nice Origin 200 running as an NFS server here, and I was
going to try that.

Mostly what I'm worried about is DDing a mounted, running, volume.

Is this something that should be attempted from single user mode or similar?

Namely worried about filesystem integrity and locks.

I'm concerned because I have no good way of verifying the integrity of
the image without wiping the drive, due to simple lack of hardware.

-- Ian



On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Carl R. Friend <crfriend at rcn.com> wrote:
>   On Mon, 5 Dec 2011, Ian Finder wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know the best way of doing this short of dding the disc to
>> a 1GB external SCSI drive?
>
>
>   If your extant system boots up enough to join a network that
> supports NFS you can (1) dd the running disk to a file on an NFS-
> mounted spot, (2) tar/cpio the contents pf the running disk to an
> NFS-mounted directory hierarchy.
>
>   Option 1 will yield something that can be booted in a simulator
> (QEMU comes to mind) and option two will save key files that'll
> contain all the on-disk configuration in a readable strcuture for
> future reference.  Option 1 will allow you to recreate a bootable
> disk so long as you have *another* device that you can connect a
> compatible disk to; option 2 will, of necessity, be missing the
> bootblock.
>
>   Cheers.
>
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