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.

We had this discussion a year ago or so.


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