Hi, Can anybody tell me how to take the backup of a Solaris machine and restore it on another Solaris machine without re-installing the OS. Commands for doing the same will be appreciated. Thanks, Anurag Tangri

Here it goes edit the /etc/vfstab file and not all partitions to backup. The ones that start with /dev/rdsk... For each partion do a ufsdump 0ufc /dev/rmt/0un /dev/rdsk... Each time you run the ufsdump the next partition is appended to the tape so you will have partition 1,2,3 ... on the tape Note: /dev/rmt/oun is your tape drive 0ufc is for a full backup This shoould put everything on the tape. To restore it do a cd /partition_to_restore ufsrestore rvfs /dev/rmt/0 <number> <number> is the partition number mentionned above "1,2,3.." Do this for all partitions If you need to do a restore of / because it it broken the do the following Boot from the cdrom (boot cdrom) newfs /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0 (root partion) fsck /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0 mount /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 /a cd /a ufsrestore rvfs /dev/rmt/0 <number> <number> is the location of / on the tape) rm restoresymtable Type uname -i copy the result of this command in the XXXX bellow. cd /usr/platform/XXXX/lib/fs/ufs installboot bootblk /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0 cd / umount /a fsck /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0 init 6 or reboot HOPE this helps let me know how it goes