Backing up service properties

sgmeunier · 10-06-2009, 03:30 PM

Hi All

I've made some changes to the properties of one of my services using svccfg. Is there any way to backup these changes so that if I need to reinstall the package I can restore the properties easily?

I've looked in /var/svc/manifest but it doesn't look like the properties are saved there.

For more info:
I changed about 9 properties for svc:/network/http:apache22 so that it runs completely as non-root. I'm running OpenSolaris 2009.06

Thanks

jlliagre · 10-08-2009, 04:28 AM

You might want to create a new boot environment before experimenting with service properties and rollback to it should something goes wrong.

Alternatively, the documented way to archive properties is using the "svccfg archive" command and to restore them is the "svccfg restore" one.

sgmeunier · 10-08-2009, 04:38 AM

Thank you very much jlliagre! That was just what I was looking for. I checked the man pages for svcadm and svcprop but never thought to check svccfg

Thanks a million.