You could also take a look at Bare Metal Restore - from VERITAS. It was formerly a TKG product, but TKG was aquired by and megerd into VERITAS. You can still get BMR for TSM from IBM channels.
Remco Post wrote: >Hi, > >Jumpstart is free, and is more like the AIX nim. ufsdump/restore are ok tools, >but they don't make a bootable image. The angian, if your happy with 'boot net >-s' or 'boot cdrom -s' mount the nsf fs the ufsdump is on and then restoreing >maulally, you'll probably be ok using usfdump. If you want to do these things >automatically with one command, you'll probably need a very customized junpstart (not >entierly impossible, if you have the time), or a third party non-free (as in beer ;) >tool. > > > >>SUN's equivalent to AIX's 'mksysb' is: ufsdump (backup OS) and ufsrestore >>(restore filesystems). Sorry, I don't have sample scripts, however, you can >>go to SUN's website, www.sun.com, and do a search of ufsdump to get the >>online command reference. >> >>PS. It's free. >> >>Jack >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of >>Wouter V >>Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 4:18 PM >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Subject: Re: Backup of Sun OS >> >>MessageThere is a separate product that has the same functionality as mksysb >>on AIX, it is called 'JUMPSTART'.Contrary to mksysb, it is not a free >>product. I think you can by it at Sun. >> >>Regards, >>Wouter Verschaeve >>Unix Sys. Engineer >> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- >> Van: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Namens >>MacMurray, Andrea (CC-ETS Ent Storage Svcs) >> Verzonden: vrijdag 25 januari 2002 20:59 >> Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Onderwerp: Backup of Sun OS >> >> >> HI everybody, >> >> The first thing I have to say to this is that I am NOT a UNIX guru, so I >>greatly would appreciate all the help I can get. The problem is that our >>Unix team wants to backup a running Sun OS and then later on restore this >>backed up OS backup and boot the machine from there, which of course did not >>work. I know AIX has the make sysb solution for this, does anybody know of a >>solution for SUN. >> TSM version 4.2.1.9 on AIX 4.3.3 >> Thanks >> Andrea Mac Murray >> Sen. Systems Administrator >> ConAgra Foods, Inc. >> 7300 World Communication Drive >> Omaha,NE 68122 >> Tel: (402) 577-3603 >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > >-- >Met vriendelijke groeten, > >Remco Post > >SARA - Stichting Academisch Rekencentrum Amsterdam >High Performance Computing Tel. +31 20 592 8008 Fax. +31 20 668 3167 > >"I really didn't foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the computer >industry. Not that that tells us very much of course - the computer industry >didn't even foresee that the century was going to end." -- Douglas Adams > -- Ray Schafer VERITAS Software www.veritas.com Field Sales Strategy [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 512 433 3300
