How to Create an Archive of the System Image
Perform this procedure to archive the file systems of the global zone that you will transform to a solaris
zone.
Next Steps
The Unified Archive generated with the archiveadm
command contains a zone configuration that serves as a starting point for the converted zone. Additional configuration might be needed to configure the zone in a way that is optimal for the target system.
For more information, see
Using Unified Archives for System Recovery and Cloning in Oracle Solaris 11.4 and the
archiveadm
(8) man page.
Troubleshooting
Tip:
In some deployments, data for the operating system and applications are segregated into separate ZFS pools. In this case, a backup and recovery system other than Unified Archives is used for protecting application data. You might want to create root-only archives. A root-only archive includes only the root pool, typicallyrpool
. The action is the equivalent of using ‐-exclude-dataset for each ZFS pool that is not the root pool.
source$ pfbash archiveadm create -z global --recovery --root-only /archives/server1.uar
Next Steps
Go to How to Configure the Transformed Zone on the Target System.