System Images?

We are creating a system that needs to be delivered to a customer. In the past, we would use a flash archive to deliver the images to the customer so they could install it on their own systems. What would be the best delivery method with TSol?

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# 1

The only supported backup programs on Trusted Solaris are ufsdump and tar (with the T option). We can not comment on what is the best method, but we do know that flash archives will not work because they use cpio, and that will lose the label and privilege information on the files.

TheTrustedSolarisTeam at 2007-7-5 17:55:55 >

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# 2

Quote: The Trusted Solaris Team wrote on Tue, 24 August 2004 20:43 - The only supported backup programs on Trusted Solaris are ufsdump and tar (with the T option). We can not comment on what is the best method, but we do know that flash archives will not work because they use cpio, and that will lose the label and privilege information on the files. -

If a flash archive is created with tar or ufsdump, then extracting it becomes another issue. The flash extraction process is expecting an archive in the cpio format. Any ideas how to address this problem? Does anyone know what scripts/programs to look into to change the extraction process from cpio to tar or ufsdump.

bdb27 at 2007-7-5 17:55:55 >

# 3

What i have done is used ufsdump to dump partitions then added those dumpfiles on a custom Jumpstart CD.

i3bargon at 2007-7-5 17:55:55 >

# 4

Quote: i3bargon wrote on Wed, 06 July 2005 14:34 - What i have done is used ufsdump to dump partitions then added those dumpfiles on a custom Jumpstart CD.

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Could you elaborate on this? Are the ufsdump's then 'installed' in the finish script in the jumpstart installation? How do you configure the partitions in jumpstart and then add the partitions via ufsdump? I will need to dump all partitions.

bdb27 at 2007-7-5 17:55:55 >

# 5

To restore from Trusted Solaris 8 (x86) from a DVD, I ended up creating a custom jumptart DVD using a Solaris 9 x86 DVD. I used a dummy flash archive (basic 30meg Sol9 installation) just to get the partitions setup and everything else working through Jumpstart. I created images of the partitions on the hard drive using dd and compressing with gzip... after I created empty space on the filesystem with "cat /dev/null > /zero".. this allows gzip to compress large partitions better. Then I created a finish script to use dd to restore the partitions from the images. Exact copy of Trusted Solaris. I even added more to the Jumpstart finish script to configure the autoboot settings (if hardware was slightly different with this system). If the hardware was very different on the new restored system, then a reboot can get messy with running drvconfig ,devlinks, etc.. (or devfsadm).

-Kevin

necron2600 at 2007-7-5 17:55:55 >

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