On 08/29/16 11:23 PM, Adam Thompson wrote: > We're using Bareos 15 to backup, among other things, a Sun SPARC server > running multiple Solaris-10-branded zones under Solaris 11.3. > > I see two ways to backup the entire server: > > a) back up the entire output from "zfs send -D -R" ; this would give me, I > think, a full backup of the entire server including global and non-global > zones. The stream would still be deduplicated and compressed internally. > > b) install a separate agent in each zone ; this would be far less efficient, > but would be a heck of a lot easier to do incemental/differential backups if > I ever need to, and a heck of a lot easier to restore individual files. > > Is anyone else backing up Solaris zones? How are you doing it? What are the > pros and cons? > Yes I do like for always. There is a third altenative as zones are mounted under some directory on the global zone e.g. normally /zones but have a look at your zonecfg. I have one external server where I backup the complete filesystem including zones from the global and on my own production server I backup per zone with zfs snapshots mounted under an alternative root and using strip path.
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