On Tue, 16 Apr 1996, Michael Lewandowski wrote:
> Hello all'
Hi Michael,
the problem is that ADSM is not backin up device files, for instance. As
I understand it, at present it is not possible to back up an Unix
operating system with ADSM. This is a severe restrict to us either.
Hopefully I am only mistaken, but the workarounds are very cumbersome.
Regards,
Andreas Floeter
> I've been trying to backup/restore a Sun/Solaris (2.4) boot disk with
> ADSM v1.2 (HOST is also running on a SUN 2.4 system).
> To make this test simple, I setup the following:
> Sparc 20 with 2 target disks, C0T1 and C0T3.
> -I installed the 'Core System' from the CDROM on-to target C0T3
> (configured TCP, etc, and booted from it). Essentially you wind up
> with a bootable target with 3 UFS's on it, those are:
> / (20meg)
> /usr (22meg)
> /export/home (20meg)
> -I installed ADSM (client) in /export/home.
> -Executed a ADSM incremental backup (full dump)
> -Created partitions on C0T1 that are identical to C0T3
> -Ran NEWFS on 3 new UFS's on C0T1
> -Mounted the UFS's on C0T1 (while booted from C0T3) as:
> / as '/newroot'
> /usr as '/newusr'
> /export/home as '/newhome'
> -Executed ADSM restores as follows:
> restore -sub=yes -la / /newroot
> restore -sub=yes -la /usr /newusr
> restore -sub=yes -la /export/home /newhome
> (this all ran to completion)
> -Last step was to run INSTALLBOOT on C0T1D0S0
> -BOOT from C0T1
>
> The boot from C0T1 results in the server hanging immediately after
> testing RAM....There are NO ERROR or FAILURE messages.
>
> How our others using ADSM to restore SUN/Solaris BOOT disks?
>
> I would really appreciate some help.
>
> thanks
>
> Mike Lewandowski
> First Chicago NBD Corporation
>
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