Backing Up an OracleSolaris System With Installed Zones

The following procedures can be used to back up files in zones. Remember to also back up the zones' configuration files.

How to Use find and cpio to Perform Backups

1. Be superuser, or have equivalent authorizations.

   For more information about roles, see Configuring and Using RBAC (Task Map) in System Administration Guide: Security Services.

2. Change directories to the root directory.

   global# cd /

3. Back up my-zone files that are not loopback mounted to /backup/my-zone.cpio.

   global# find zones/my-zone -fstype lofs -prune -o -local | cpio -oc -O /backup/my-zone.cpio type as one line

4. Verify the results.

   global# ls -l backup/my-zone.cpio

   You will see a display similar to the following:

   -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root     99680256 Aug 10 16:13 backup/my-zone.cpio

How to Print a Copy of a Zone Configuration

You should create backup files of your non-global zone configurations. You can use the backups to recreate the zones later if necessary. Create the copy of the zone's configuration after you have logged in to the zone for the first time and have responded to the sysidtool questions. This procedure uses a zone named my-zone and a backup file named my-zone.config to illustrate the process.

1. Be superuser, or have the required rights profile.

   For more information about roles, see Configuring and Using RBAC (Task Map) in System Administration Guide: Security Services.

2. Print the configuration for the zone my-zone to a file named my-zone.config.

   global# zonecfg -z my-zone export > my-zone.config