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Managing Boot Environments With Oracle Solaris 11 Express Oracle Solaris 11 Express 11/10 |
1. Introduction to Boot Environments
2. Using beadm Utility (Tasks)
Listing Existing Boot Environments and Snapshots
How to Display Information About Your Boot Environments, Snapshots, and Datasets
How to Create a Boot Environment
How to Create a Boot Environment From an Inactive Boot Environment
How to Create a Boot Environment From an Existing Snapshot
Changing the Default Boot Environment
How to Activate an Existing Boot Environment
Mounting and Updating an Inactive Boot Environment
How to Mount a Boot Environment
How to Unmount an Existing Boot Environment
How to Destroy an Existing Boot Environment
Creating Custom Names for Boot Environments
You can manually create a snapshot of an existing boot environment for your reference. This snapshot is a read-only image of a dataset or boot environment at a given point in time. You can create a custom name for the snapshot that indicates when the snapshot was created or what it contains.
$ beadm create BEname@snapshotdescription
Replace the variable, BEname@snapshotdescription, with a custom name for your snapshot. The custom name must use the format BEname@snapshotdescription, where BEname is the name of an existing boot environment that you want to make a snapshot from. Type a custom snapshotdescription to identify the date or purpose of the snapshot.
Sample snapshot names include:
BE1@0312200.12:15pm
BE2@backup
BE1@march132008
Note - Unless you use the beadm create command to assign a custom title to a snapshot, titles for snapshots automatically include a timestamp that indicates when the snapshot was taken.