Thanks to all replies. Almost everyone suggested using "rsync" which is what I am planning to use. In fact the download page http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/index.html has a nice recipe for cloning system drive which I am planning to use (rsync -ax) Tim Evans <tkevans@tkevans.com> suggested I use SUN's own "live upgarde" package available free for download. This has some interesting potential for doing upgrades to OS with minimal inturruptions. I am looking into this. Sridhar Original Question: ------------------------- I would like to use rdist to clone my system drive onto c0t1d0 (partitioned the same way) on a daily/weekly basis. Reason for wanting to use rdist is that there is not much change in system drive on a daily/weekly basis. Is this possible?. I would use a cron command to mount the / ,/var and other slices one at a time, rdist changes and then umount that slice. what is the procedure to do the same? (rdist part of it). Also how would I prevent the script from unmounting the slice until the rdist process is completed? _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Fri Aug 2 10:23:41 2002
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