Well thanks to everyone for the suggestions. I am probably going to perform
the fssnap like Jeremy suggested, just because. I will say that zones are
fantastic, and even on an Ultra 10 run without a hitch or slowdown. Now if I
could install a smaller set of packages and still get zone functionality.....

Thanks everyone!

Matt

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From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Darren 
Dunham
Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 11:44
To: Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Solaris 10 zones and Netbackup


> NetBackup 5.1 MP2 supports Solaris 10, but only the global zone.

So it shouldn't be too difficult to create a policy that backs up the data in
the target zone via the visibility from the global zone. 

If you wanted to *really* complete, you could have a pre-backup script do a
zonecfg -export on the zone into a file, and include that file in the backup,
or backup the /etc/zones/<zone>.xml file directly.  Then you'd have something
you could use to recreate the zone if that were useful to you.

I don't see any big problems in backing up a 'whole-root' zone.  I'm a little
worried about the potential for lofs links to be followed in a shared-root
zone.

That said, I haven't tried this with NetBackup yet.

Brendan Gregg has some notes about backups on his zones page:
http://users.tpg.com.au/adsln4yb/zones.html#backups0

He and I made some comments on a sun forum page:
http://forum.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=23770&tstart=45

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Darren Dunham                                           ddunham AT taos DOT com
Senior Technical Consultant         TAOS            http://www.taos.com/
Got some Dr Pepper?                           San Francisco, CA bay area
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