Summary
Data is critical to any organization and therefore ensuring its safety is very important. Data can be secured by backing it up on a regular basis. For large organizations where there is a large volume of data, the backup procedure has to be well planned and laid out. You must first know what to back up, and you should plan for the volume of data that is to be backed up, the devices that will be used to perform the backups, the type of backup, and so on.
In Solaris, you back up file systems and the files and directories within them. The root file system contains the most critical data. It contains the kernel and device drivers. You must back up the root file system at regular intervals. Directories such as /var and /export contain volatile ...
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