> On Nov 5, 2015, at 00:54, Nikola M wrote:
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> On 11/ 3/15 08:52 PM, Rich Teer wrote:
>> I'm currently using the external drive bay with a USB 2 connection, plus
>> an eSATA drive (3-way mirror). My plan is to drop the eSATA drive (it's
>> a 2 TB drive vs the 4 TB drives in the other drive bay
On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 4:05 PM, Tim Mooney wrote:
> Just MHO, but automated installation (jumpstart, kickstart, etc.) +
> rigorous use of a configuration management system (puppet, ansible,
> chef, etc.) is the way to go for OS config. It's probably both faster
> and (almost certainly) safer to
In regard to: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What is the recommended way to back...:
The last thing I ever thought I would do was to speak highly of AIX, the Unix
with the equivalent of the Windows registry (ODM database), but AIX has a way
to back up and restore an existing (configured) system to a
On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 3:39 PM, Jerry Kemp wrote:
> (Scope) creeping out further, can any of the *BSD's or Lunux distro's do a
> full system restore to blank disk?
I've usually done it by booting from a LiveCD, and doing the restore from
there. I think this is probably the ideal method.
Anoth
On 11/ 6/15 03:27 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
Probably the subject line should have been "What is the recommended way to
restore configuration from the root pool"?
It seems easy enough to back up the root pool (via filesystem or zfs send) but
restoring the desired parts on top of a freshly ins
On Fri, 6 Nov 2015, David Brodbeck wrote:
In ye olden days, or on FreeBSD, I'd probably back up /etc (and, on BSD,
/usr/local/etc) with rsync and assume that would capture the configuration.
With SMF, which is opaque about its config file locations, I suspect that
wouldn't do it. I think the se
On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 12:02 PM, Jerry Kemp
wrote:
> From a high level view, his comment to them is to NOT run a mirror. His
> suggestion to them is to just run a straight drive, then every evening or
> downtime, bring the other disk(s) online and sync them with the online
> master, using rsync
On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 5:59 PM, Bob Friesenhahn <
bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us> wrote:
> Assume that this is for a network server with advanced network
> configuration settings, ssh config, zones, etc.
>
> If was the same as a standard OS install without subsequent configuration,
> then backing u
