How to Use find and cpio to Perform Backups

1. Become superuser, or assume the Primary Administrator role.

   To create the role and assign the role to a user, see Using the Solaris Management Tools With RBAC (Task Map) in System Administration Guide: Basic Administration.

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 export/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