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From: Loial on 13 Feb 2010 02:58
I have 2 disks in my Solaris 10 sparc box. If the disk with the root
file system on fails and is replaced, can I restore the root file
system from a ufs dump file that I have stored on the second disk?
Would I be able to access the files on the second disk without a root
filesystem?

Would I be able to access those files on the second disk without a
root filesystem in place?
From: solx on 13 Feb 2010 09:26
On 13/02/2010 07:58, Loial wrote:
> I have 2 disks in my Solaris 10 sparc box. If the disk with the root
> file system on fails and is replaced, can I restore the root file
> system from a ufs dump file that I have stored on the second disk?
> Would I be able to access the files on the second disk without a root
> filesystem?
>
> Would I be able to access those files on the second disk without a
> root filesystem in place?

Yes, you can ufs restore the boot disk from your second disk but you
will need to

1. boot from a Solaris DVD (select option 1 for install to get GUI
desktop but do not proceed with install).
2. run format to fdisk/partition your boot disk
3. newfs the partitions on the new disk
4. mount your second disk
5. ufsrestore -if <second disk>/directory/ufsdump.file
6. use installboot to make the disk bootable


From: Andrew Gabriel on 13 Feb 2010 09:27
In article <7fa238fc-95ef-4852-a917-c5a1b4bdfe9c(a)z17g2000yqh.googlegroups.com>,
Loial <jldunn2000(a)googlemail.com> writes:
> I have 2 disks in my Solaris 10 sparc box. If the disk with the root
> file system on fails and is replaced, can I restore the root file
> system from a ufs dump file that I have stored on the second disk?
> Would I be able to access the files on the second disk without a root
> filesystem?
>
> Would I be able to access those files on the second disk without a
> root filesystem in place?

You could boot and run from the install DVD whilst you put a root/boot
disk back together.

--
Andrew Gabriel
[email address is not usable -- followup in the newsgroup]
From: vinayag on 13 Feb 2010 09:29
On Feb 13, 12:58 pm, Loial <jldunn2...(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
> I have 2 disks in my Solaris 10 sparc box. If the disk with the root
> file system on fails and is replaced, can I restore the root file
> system from a ufs dump file that I have stored on the second disk?
> Would I be able to access the files on the second disk without a root
> filesystem?
>
> Would I be able to access those files on the second disk without a
> root filesystem in place?

yes you can.. you need to boot the system from cd/dvd.. then access
the second disk and use dump file

vinayag
From: Loial on 13 Feb 2010 12:34
On Feb 13, 2:26 pm, solx <nos...(a)example.net> wrote:
> On 13/02/2010 07:58, Loial wrote:
>
> > I have 2 disks in my Solaris 10 sparc box. If the disk with the root
> > file system on fails and is replaced, can I restore the root file
> > system from a ufs dump file that I have stored on the second disk?
> > Would I be able to access the files on the second disk without a root
> > filesystem?
>
> > Would I be able to access those files on the second disk without a
> > root filesystem in place?
>
> Yes, you can ufs restore the boot disk from your second disk but you
> will need to
>
> 1. boot from a Solaris DVD (select option 1 for install to get GUI
> desktop but do not proceed with install).
> 2. run format to fdisk/partition your boot disk
> 3. newfs the partitions on the new disk
> 4. mount your second disk
> 5. ufsrestore -if <second disk>/directory/ufsdump.file
> 6. use installboot to make the disk bootable

OK, thanks for your quick replay at a weekend! . What command syntax
would I use to mount the second disk?
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