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QUESTION POSED ON: 28 June 2004
How do I best back up a Solaris operating system to automatically perform bare metal recoveries, like mksysb on AIX and make_recovery on HP-UX? The other issue is that I also need to collect the VGDA to perform faster recreation of the logical volumes, volumegroups, and even format filesystems. Do you have a better method for this?

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Assuming you don't want to write a bare-metal recovery tool on your own, there are a number of such tools available for Solaris now, although none are offered by Sun. Check with your backup software product to see if they have one. A directory of such tools is available at www.storagemountain.com.

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