How to Use ZFSsend to Perform Backups

1. Become an administrator.

   For more information, see Using Your Assigned Administrative Rights in Securing Users and Processes in Oracle Solaris 11.2 .

2. Obtain the zonepath for the zone:

   global# zonecfg -z my-zone info zonepath
   zonepath: /zones/my-zone

3. Obtain the zonepath dataset by using the zfs list command:

   global# zfs list -H -o name /zones/my-zone
   rpool/zones/my-zone

4. Create an archive of the zone using a ZFS snapshot:

   global# zfs  snapshot -r rpool/zones/my-zone@snap
   global# zfs snapshot -r rpool/zones/my-zone@snap
   global# zfs zfs send -rc rpool/zones/my-zone@snap > /path/to/save/archive
   global# zfs destroy -r rpool/zones/my-zone@snap

   You will see a display similar to the following:

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