[ale] OT:slightly-Solaris system recovery system

[Jeff Rose]

I have a friend who manages a network of computers for a small company
here in town.  They are all Windows machines save a lone Solaris 5.6
box.  Of course all the trouble he encouters happens with the windows
machines.  Except the time he decided to mess with the Solaris box and
entered the command rm /something/* and discovered he'd just deleted the
company's database and program files.  Luckily there was a backup and he
was able to reinstall the necessary programs.  
	So he decided he needs a system restore like in Windows.  He wants me
to help him build something he can easily use to restore the entire OS
in case he decides to issue rm -rf /* next time.  Basically, in case the
hard drive fails or is wiped clean he doesn't want to have to reinstall
the OS, all the programs and the database.  He wants to be able to push
a few buttons and have the system magically reappear.  Is this
possible?  I thought maybe he could make an iso image of the whole hard
drive and then restore that.  Is there a better way, or even a
program/script to do it?  Thanks for the help

Jeff
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Jeff Rose
1914 Neely Ave
East Point, GA 30344

404-766-3885

jojerose at mindspring.com




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