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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.

Solaris tape device files and utilities

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There are a number of utilities and files that come into play with tape drives in Solaris, and it is helpful to know how all the pieces fit together.

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.