Hi Team,

I would like to take the image of my Solaris box before going to patch the box, Please help me with the process how to proceed.

Regards
Saroj M.

There are several ways to do that.
You must have a ready volume, or partition, or separate space to store the image into.

First use rsync. root--# rsync -rplog / /mnt/drive/myimage

Second, use dd. --root# dd if=/dev/mysolarixpartition /mnt/some_other_partition/mysolarisimage.iso

Third, us cp (copy).

Or use " tar " to archive the / files.

Make a little research on the webs about "rsync" there are plenty of options you can choose with to fit your desire. rsync is very versatile. Read also some intructions about " dd ". Both shall copy a running system. Don't worry if cache and live files are ignored.

Enjoy.

There are more convenient ways than taking a full image, especially when the root filesystem is on ZFS which is always the case with Solaris 11.

With Solaris 10, you can use Live Upgrade and with Solaris 11, Boot Environments. See http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23824_01/...betools-6.html

Ouch !

Using "dd" with a running system is doomed. You use snapshots (either ZFS or UFS) to save live Solaris file systems.

Hi Mustaq

Thank you for your input to my query, will check with those.

Regards
Saroj M.

Did you understood both of my replies?

None of Mustaq suggestions will take a synchronous image of a the partition.

If your goal is to backup static files, then "rsync" and "tar" should be fine but "dd" will create a partially or totally unusable file system.

If your goal is to take an image of a running Solaris, use the snapshot approach, i.e. something that take an instantaneous copy of a running file system.

Thank you Jlliagre