I am sure you cannot create a flash archive after creating a zone. However solaris evolves and might be possible in current releases.
My suggestion would be you can export the zones you created If flash archive does not allow creation with zones configured, destroy them. Create your flash and when done, you can import your previous zone exports. You can build your system with the new flash and do the same for the importing zones on to the new machine. Look at zones attach/ detach docs and its pretty straight forward The only requirement is that both systems need to be at the same patch level or you might have to force import the zones Good luck Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T -----Original Message----- From: "Peebles, Robert" <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:07:11 To: Solaris-Users mailing list<[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Solaris-Users] cloning Neil, When you create the flash archive you will need to exclude the directories that contain the non-global zone roots. So, for example, if you created the zones under /zones, you would need to exclude /zones (or at least /zones/zonename1 and /zones/zonename2) from the flash archive. The reason is because flash archive is not zone-aware/zone-friendly. Regards, Robert -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dombrowski, Neil Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 7:53 AM To: Solaris-Users mailing list Subject: Re: [Solaris-Users] cloning > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:solaris-users- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Dombrowski, Neil > Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 7:57 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Solaris-Users] cloning > > Learning more about solaris everyday, I installed it on a Dell server and > created two non-global zones. I'd like to have that same setup on another > identical server, is there some solaris tool that I can look up that would > basically clone this server? I suppose I could do a dd, but just seeing if > Solaris has an easier solution. > > Thanks, > Neil > > _______________________________________________ > Solaris-Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/solaris-users Thanks for the quick responses. Gonna try to go with a flash archive right first, see how that works. I already have an admin webserver for just such an occasion, and I remember seeing the installation asking about installing from flash archive. The other option was using zfs snapshots, which I'm not sure about how I'd get that on an empty system, so I'll hold that as a backup plan. Thanks again, Neil _______________________________________________ Solaris-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/solaris-users _______________________________________________ Solaris-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/solaris-users _______________________________________________ Solaris-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/solaris-users
