Recover rpool ZFS pools and snapshots on Solaris 10 SPARC

I assume you’ve already taken a recursive ZFS snapshot and sent the snapshot/pool off to your local NFS server.

In this example, I have a Netra X1 with 2 drives (mirrored)

Now you need to boot your Solaris 10 CD/DVD, either from physical media or over the network


boot net -s

or


boot cdrom -s

Important: Make sure your disks are labeled correctly! (SMI)


format -e c0t0d0s0
>label
>0 (For SMI)
>modify
>Free Space Hog (Select s0, not s6)

Do the same for your other disk as well (In my case, c0t2d0s0)

Create your rpool


zpool create -f -o failmode=continue -R /a -m legacy -o cachefile=/etc/zfs/zpool.cache rpool mirror c0t0d0s0 c0t2d0s0

Mount NFS


mkdir /tmp/a
mount 192.168.1.1:/archives /tmp/a

ZFS Receive


zfs receive -dvuF rpool < /tmp/a/archive/rpool-backup

Set which pool you want to boot from


zpool set bootfs=rpool/ROOT/s10s_u8wos_08a rpool

Install boot blocks (SPARC)


installboot -F zfs /usr/platform/`uname -i`/lib/fs/zfs/bootblk /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0
installboot -F zfs /usr/platform/`uname -i`/lib/fs/zfs/bootblk /dev/rdsk/c0t2d0s0

Reboot


reboot -- disk

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