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copying boot disk

hamei
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Who joined Feb. 24, 2004, 4:10 p.m.
Wrote the following at Jan. 18, 2015, 1:12 a.m...
I plan to clone the boot partition on a Solaris 11 system by booting from a CD, then using dd to copy the root partition to a USB stick. Is this a dumb idea, i.e., does Solaris have anything easier, comparable to the xfsdump / xfsrestore piped trick described on Ian's site ?
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foetz
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Wrote the following at Jan. 18, 2015, 1:37 a.m...
zfs needs more work. have a look at: http://waddles.org/content/replicating-zfs-root-disks
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hamei
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Wrote the following at Jan. 18, 2015, 3:10 a.m...
foetz wrote: zfs needs more work. have a look at: http://waddles.org/content/replicating-zfs-root-disks

Mary, Joseph and the Baby Jesus ... when I installed Sol 10 I made the root disk ufs on purpose but the new installer doesn't give you that choice.

What do you think about booting from a CD and using dd ?
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foetz
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Wrote the following at Jan. 18, 2015, 5:28 a.m...
hamei wrote: Mary, Joseph and the Baby Jesus ... when I installed Sol 10 I made the root disk ufs on purpose but the new installer doesn't give you that choice.

yeah that's what's called "progress" :P

What do you think about booting from a CD and using dd ?

i've never been a dd friend. first and foremost because it's dead slow. also zfs might store something like a unique id per disk or something that'd make the clone useless.
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