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Solaris backup and restore utilities

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

Solaris backup and restore command examples

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

Creating dummy files with mkfile/fsutil

The following command will create a dummy file in the specified path with the specified size (in bytes):