System Administration Guide, Volume 1

Chapter 41 Backing Up and Restoring Data Topics

This section provides instructions for backing up and restoring data in the Solaris environment. This section contains these chapters.

Chapter 42, Backing Up and Restoring File Systems (Overview)	Provides guidelines and planning information on backing up and restoring data using the `ufsdump` and `ufsrestore` commands.
Chapter 43, Backing Up Files and File Systems (Tasks)	Provides step-by-step instructions for backing up individual files and complete file systems from local or remote devices.
Chapter 44, Restoring Files and File Systems (Tasks)	Provides step-by-step instructions for restoring individual files and complete file systems.
Chapter 45, The `ufsdump` and `ufsrestore` Commands (Reference)	Describes how `ufsdump` works, and the syntax and options for the `ufsdump` and `ufsrestore` commands.
Chapter 46, Copying UFS Files and File Systems (Tasks)	Provides step-by-step instructions for copying file systems to disk, for using the `dd`, `cpio`, and `tar` commands with different backup media, and copying files with a different header format.
Chapter 47, Managing Tape Drives (Tasks)	Provides step-by-step instructions for how to add a tape drive, how to determine the type of tape drive, backup device names, and working with tape drives and magnetic tape cartridges.