Wednesday, July 9, 2008

How to Restore entire content of root file systems to new HDD

1. Boot your system
2. At OK prompt type boot cdrom –s
3. Create a file system on new HDD
newfs /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0
4. Mount partition to /a directory mount /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 /a
5. Go to /a directory
cd /a
6. Restore tape content
ufsrestore rvf /dev/rmt/0
7. Remove the restoresym table file.rm restoresymtable
8. Unmount the /a umount /a
9.
cd /usr/platform/`uname-m`/lib/fs/ufs
10. Configure boot device
installboot bootblk /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0
11. Reboot your system init 6

1 comment:

Raghavan alias Saravanan M said...

Solaris - have just heard of it. I have worked on other flavours of Unix like AIX, Ubuntu etc.,

Keep it up!

Cheers,
Raghavan alias Saravanan M.