Yes, I know this discussion arose a year ago... but I have found that I'm not
actually getting full backups of each zone.
It seems that there are ZFS filesystems that I can't access directly from the
global zone. (Maybe I'm making a simply mistake on the Solaris side here?
Dunno...)
I re-posted this in the hopes of getting more than one data point, since we
just re-evaluated the current status of our backup systems.
(And I'm quite happy with Bareos, BTW. I still haven't been able to sell my
boss on paying for open source, though.)
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Sent: August 30, 2016 12:09
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Subject: [bareos-users] Re: Best practices for backing up Solaris Zones?
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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