Gavin,

  I am sending to you through email the procedures we have used
successfully to recover solaris workstations

David Yarbrough
Chief IT&T Team
USAF

Gavin Ring/AALC/AlcatelAustralia wrote:
>
> Has anyone encountered a problem when trying  to recover the /usr partition on
> a Sun
> box running Solaris 2.4.
>
> We have found that there are 2 files in /usr/lib that are open at the time of
> the recovery.
>
> 1. /usr/lib/libc.so.1
> 2. /usr/lib/libsocket.so.1
>
> The ADSM recovery crashes and these files are corrupted.
>
> The system is then inoperable and unable to boot.
>
> We have identified these files and excluded them from backup however, we
> would like to know if anyone has tested full system recoveries on different
> versions of Solaris/Sunos/HPUX/Digital Unix and had similar problems.
>
> We are running the ADSM restores using the 2.1.06 client.
>
> The Redbook describing ADSM client bare metal restores does not mention how to
> recover a Solaris/Sunos
> etc.... system.
>
> Any help will be greatly appreciated.
>
> Gavin Ring