Creating and Administering Oracle^® Solaris 11.3 Boot Environments

Cloning a Boot Environment From an Existing Snapshot

A snapshot of a boot environment is not bootable. However, you can clone a new boot environment from an existing snapshot. Then you can activate and boot that new boot environment.

How to Clone a Boot Environment From a Snapshot

1. Become an administrator.

   For more information, see Using Your Assigned Administrative Rights in Securing Users and Processes in Oracle Solaris 11.3.

2. Clone a new boot environment from a snapshot.

   # beadm create -e BEname@snapshotdescription NewName

   BEname@snapshotdescription is the name of an existing snapshot and description. NewName is a custom name for your new boot environment.

   For example:

   # beadm create -e BE1@now BE2

   This command creates a new boot environment named BE2 from the existing snapshot named BE1@now.

Next Steps

You can activate this new boot environment. See Changing the Default Boot Environment.