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Solaris backup and restore utilities

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A brief overview of the various backup and restore utilities available under the Solaris operating system.

Components of a UFS file system

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When you create a UFS file system, the disk slice is divided into cylinder groups.

soft links and hard links in Solaris

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A link is a pointer to another file or directory. Links provide a mechanism for multiple file names to reference the same data on disk.

Solaris file types

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The file type can usually be identified by looking at the first character of the first column of information when using the ls command

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.