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Controlling User Disk Space Usage

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Quotas let system administrators control the size of UFS file systems by limiting the amount of disk space that individual users can acquire.

Solstice Backup Server Recovery (pre 6.x)

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A procedure to recovering from the loss or corruption of a Solstice Backup servers critical files including the index, media index, and resource files

Solaris backup and restore command examples

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Backups and Restores of Solaris UFS file systems, files and directories can be done using tar, cpio, ufsdump, ufsrestore and dd commands.

Quick start on Oracle 8i and Solaris

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This page assumes you want an oracle install on a single disk, with minimum memory, to just play around with oracle and learn the basics.

Solaris Volume Manager Overview

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A full discussion is beyond the scope of this article, so we will focus on the most common cases, how to set them up, manage them and maintain them.

CRONTAB Quick Reference Guide

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A Solaris utility that allows tasks to be scheduled at regular intervals via the cron daemon. The crontab is the file containing the scheduled tasks.

Sun Management Center - A Technical Overview

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Integrates and scales from single to thousands of servers and desktops, storage components and applications running on Solaris