Sunfire with Solaris 8 - Best way to transfer all data
Can anyone tell me what method is best to take all the data from one system : Sunfire V250 to another system Sunfire V125.
Using Solaris 8 on the source machine.
Planning to upgrade on the SunfireV125 after the restore, to Solaris 10 and all its apps.
The only apps installed on the source machine is informix and apache.
What method is best : tar, dd, live update ( with 2 hd in same server ), ghost of some sort ?
Also : in what mode is the : single boot mode ?
Thanks in advance.
DonaldR
[539 byte] By [
DonaldRa] at [2007-11-27 10:51:31]
# 1
On your solaris 10 do a
"dump 0f - SOL8Machine:/dev/dsk/C0T1D0S0 | ufsrestore rf -"
This command will do a dump of the solaris 8 disk and restore it on the current location.
It is the typically same as doing a backup and restore.
Hope this helps
# 2
is informix using raw devices or cooked filesystems?
if so, you'll probably have to use dd there
otherwise a handy tool you can investigate is rsync. We've used that quite successfully to pick and choose which areas we wish to copy from one machine to the other, without having to do a complete filesystem backup and restore on another server. Should you have any further questions on it, just reply - jeff
