[databases-discuss] Cloning / Backup of Solaris 10 Server

[Anon Y Mous]

Solaris 10 has an amazing built in feature for backing up and cloning out thousands of copies of the same OS image. This feature is called "flash archive" and it is not available in Microsoft Windows, Linux, or OpenSolaris. Here are some links that might help you get started with it:

http://www.cuddletech.com/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=245

http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/content/submitted/flash_archive.jsp

http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-5668/6ml414d9p?a=view

http://www.unix.com/sun-solaris/98750-how-take-solaris-os-backup-flarcreate-command.html

Be warned though, once you get the hang of using this feature, you will have a hard time moving away from Solaris to another OS. Microsoft Windows makes you purchase Acronis from a third party for lots of money whereas Solaris 10 gives you a much better feature included for free as part of the OS.
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