Solaris Zone support

When using BMR to back up and restore Solaris Zones, you need to address some unique considerations.

Bare Metal Restore can restore a Solaris system running Zones. Although BMR cannot restore individual non-global zones, all non-global zones in a system are re-created as part of the global zone restoration.

In a dissimilar disk restoration scenario, do the following to ensure that you restore all non-global zones:

You may have to re-create and restore all file systems imported or used by a non-global zone after BMR restoration. These file systems usually don't appear in the global zone vfstab (/etc/vfstab).

In addition, to properly restore the zones, do the following:

BMR relies on entries in /etc/vfstab to document the file systems that are subject to restoration. Dynamically-created and mounted file the systems that do not appear in /etc/vfstab (even if backed up by NBU) do not automatically restore. The easiest way to force BMR to restore such file systems is the following: add an entry to /etc/vfstab that documents the devices and mount points used, with the Mount at boot field that is set to no. Then, the dynamic file systems can continue to be used as before. BMR is aware of them, recreates them unless unmapped in DDR, and restores their contents if backed up by NBU.

Zone features cause dynamically mounted file systems to appear, as follows:

You can automate BMR zone restoration.

To automate, you add entries to the global zone /etc/vfstab that cause BMR to restore them (unless unmapped by DDR), as follows: