Re: [FW1] Hardrive Cloning

[Ryan Wilson <wilsonr@FW1-NOSPAMmlc.mb.ca>]

Title: Re: [FW1] Hardrive Cloning

Another option would be to right a script.
Copy the vtoc to the new drive, newfs, ufsdump/restore, and then installboot.

One issue you may have with this is licensing, however. I have found it very difficult to replace the license on any given installation. So, if you have Check Point licensing down pat then this is a good option. Otherwise I would just clone the disk with the OS on it and then install Check Point. Check Point doesn't take too long to install anyway (10 minutes on a sparc 5)....

just my $0.02

..R

Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 23:51:31 -0500
From: Jason Costomiris <jcostom@jasons.org>
Subject: Re: [FW1] Hardrive Cloning

On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 05:28:07PM -0500, Rubens Perdomo wrote:
: Does anyone know of a way to clone a hard drive with Solaris 2.6. I need
: to install several FW-1/VPN on 220R servers and would like to have one
: good install to clone rather than having to install each one separately.

If the drive geometries are identical, then you can use dd to do this.
dd if=/dev/dsk/...(orig drive)... of=/dev/dsk/...(new drive)...

Just figure out what your devices are, and you're set.

Otherwise, you'll be doing lots of find's with cpio's and |'s...

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