Web Start Flash

The main feature of Web Start Flash is to provide a method to store a snapshot of the Solaris operating environment complete with all installed patches and applications. This snapshot is referred to as the Flash archive, and the system that the archive is taken from is referred to as the master machine. This archive can be stored on disk, CD-ROM, or tape media. You can use this archive for disaster-recovery purposes or to replicate (clone) an environment on one or more other systems. When using a Flash archive to install the Solaris environment onto a system, the target system on which we are installing the environment is referred to as a “clone system” because the newly installed system will have the same installation configuration ...

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