[rescue] Imaging Solaris 2.5 without SCSI devices

[Jonathan Patschke]

On Mon, 5 Dec 2011, Ian Finder wrote:

> Also, what do people think of using ufsdump?

ufsdump is preferable to tar on older Solaris systems, as Solaris tar (of
that vintage) is rather limited in its ability to handle long (> 100
character) filenames, and GNU tar doesn't always do the right thing with
"door" files on Solaris.

If I were in your situation, I'd make a dd image, a ufsdump image of each
slice, and a NFS-mountable mirror of the disk using ufsdump | (cd dest && 
ufsrestore r).

The dd-image gets you something you can use if everything blows up.  The
ufsdump images give you convenient ways to restore individual files, and
the NFS-mountable mirror gives you a way to do "offline" experimentation,
to the degree that it makes sense.  If you can netboot the notebook, it'll
be even more useful.

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