Marc Davis wrote: > I have a Solaris 10 box that follows a vendor mandated routine of tape > backups that are cumbersome.
If Solaris is only a client, then only rsync is needed. SunSSH which should be installed on Solaris 10 by default is completely compatible with OpenSSH. If you need to install packages such as rsync, I recommend using a site such as http://www.opencsw.org/ instead of compiling by hand. Installing rsync should be as simple as "pkg-get install rsync" once you have installed pkg-get from their website. > > > > I currently run Dirvish on linux to back up my other linux servers. > Note however that I am primarily the desktop guy and have inherited the > sys admin's job kind of by default. > > > > Is there anything I particularly need to be aware of when backing up > solaris to a linux box? The main difference I know of is that Solaris 10 has two different filesystems, UFS and ZFS. UFS is similar in design to Ext3 and has POSIX ACLs turned on by default. ZFS uses NFSv4 ACLs natively, but they may not be turned on by default. Dirvish does not support NFSv4 ACLs, but does support POSIX ACLs. You will also need ACLs enabled on the backup partition. This is assuming that preserving ACLs are important to you and that ACLs are being used. If they aren't then there is very little difference from Linux outside of installing rsync. I do not have much experience with Solaris myself and I am not sure whether Solaris uses ACLs normally or if there just for the benefit of the Sysadmins. > > What about versions of rsync? rsync --version Make sure rsync has ACL support in it's version output if support for POSIX ACLs is needed. > > Installing dirvish on solaris? pkgadd -d http://www.opencsw.org/pkg_get.pkg pkg-get install rsync > > > > Looking for someone to just kind of point me in the right direction and > maybe do a little coaching. > > I can find my way around linux okay, but I have no real training or > familiarity with Solaris. > > Thanks. > > > > Marc Davis > Systems Associate > Cowles Library, Drake University > 2507 University Avenue > Des Moines, IA 50311 USA > 515-271-1934 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Dirvish mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish -- Loren M. Lang [email protected] http://www.alzatex.com/ Public Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc Fingerprint: 10A0 7AE2 DAF5 4780 888A 3FA4 DCEE BB39 7654 DE5B _______________________________________________ Dirvish mailing list [email protected] http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
