Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Zones Backup

2016-02-14 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sun, 14 Feb 2016, Michael Mounteney wrote: This does require the discipline to record your changes in your setup script, but the benefit is that your zones are entirely recreatable and don't have to be backed-up. It seems long-winded but I reckon it's a lot quicker and tidier to apply a

[OmniOS-discuss] Zones Backup

2016-02-13 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
My microserver project (Xeon D based) is almost completely done now. All services are partitioned into zones. I created a base zone and then cloned that zone to create the other zones. All 'data' used by a zone is external via lofs mounts with only configuration and services being in the

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Zones Backup

2016-02-13 Thread Michael Mounteney
On Sat, 13 Feb 2016 19:51:32 -0600 (CST) Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > Does anyone have an effective zone backup method they can share which > strips out all the cruft and retains only key files such as > configuration files? I'll put this on the table in case it