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Solaris backup and restore command examples

21 Nov 1999 4 minute read 3880 visits.

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

5 Apr 2012 1 minute read 336 visits.

How do we know how is a storage device mapped to local device? Simple checkout /etc/path_to_inst.

21 Jul 1999 6 minute read 3273 visits.

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.

2 Sep 2002 2 minute read 2856 visits.

A simple procedure to replace a failed SCSI disks which is mirrored with Solstice DiskSuite without the need to reboot the Solaris server.

1 Jul 2003 1 minute read 2830 visits.

Cumulative hotfixes are periodically issued. They combine various individual hotfixes that might have an impact on customer production environments

24 Jun 1999 4 minute read 3057 visits.

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.

15 Jun 1999 3 minute read 2833 visits.

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.

1 May 2000 6 minute read 1590 visits.

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

5 Aug 1999 1 minute read 3225 visits.

Y2000 Compliance requires patched version 3.2.5 or later. The patched versions are down-loadable free of charge from the following ftp sites.

21 May 1999 1 minute read 2739 visits.

There is a rather nasty bug in Vxfs 3.3.1 that appears to manifest itself into a backup problem.