hi folks happy new year to all, I haven't been coming round for a long time.
I've been googling about this can't seem to find any good examples, I need to know if it's possible to do a ufsdump os backup into a usb flash drive.
Then what about in event of os recovery when we boot to single user mode from the cdrom will ufsrestore from a flash drive work?
does anybody have experience doing this?
It all depends on how your server(s) see the USB device. If it accepts it as a disk, format it and create & mount a filesystem then write your ufsdump to a file in that filesystem. The tricky bit is on the restore.
In the past I tried to script our OS restores from tape using a diskette to store the scripts so it would slice the disk and call the restores in the right order for each fileystem we needed to get a boot with including the one that contained ou data backup software. The diskette is not a recognised device when booted single-user from the install media so i had to give up. This was years ago, but it might be the same with a USB device.
You could, however, try something like this:-
No guarantees, but it might work. It's all in the testing.
Do you do the DR to hardware you own and can test on? If not and you go to a company that provides a recovery centre, talk to them. They usually will have people who have done this sort of thing before. Discuss your options with them and they might even give you a procedure.
A possible solution is that the recovery site provide a basic working server and lead you through the ufsrestore and eeprom updates, adding device drivers that you might needs etc. but as they are in this speciality as a business, they have probably considered most options already or will get an answer for you.
I hope that this helps,
Robin
hmm .. looks like there is no proven method of recovery using usb flash drives, I have LTO3 drives but my customer not keen to buy vhdci cards.
Has anybody used usb to vhdci without issues on solaris 10?