Backups (tar, cpio & dd) quest for solaris administration

1. Understands the difference between generic and flavours specific commands.
2. Check out the advantage and disadvantage of all generic commands.
3. Try backup using tar, cpio and dd and observe the difference.
4. By using tar command try to take the backup of device files
5. How to verify what are all the files which have been taken backup using cpio command
6. How we can restore the file which have been taken a backup using cpio command
7. Try incremental backups using tar command.
8. Take backup as a normal user using tar and cpio.
9. Create a directory with some files and take backup of it and try to restore it in different directory location by using tar command.
10. Use dd command to take the dump of entire disk (disk1) to (disk2) and try to boot from disk2.
11. By using dd command take the backup of /usr file system and mount it on any directory and observe the contents.