Restoring a Non-Global Zone

How to Restore an Individual Non-Global Zone

You can use the backup files of your non-global zone configurations to restore non-global zones, if necessary. This procedure uses a zone named my-zone and a backup file named my-zone.config to illustrate the process of restoring a zone.

1. Become superuser, or assume the Primary Administrator role.

   To create the role and assign the role to a user, see Using the Solaris Management Tools With RBAC (Task Map) in System Administration Guide: Basic Administration.

2. Specify that my-zone.config be used as the zonecfg command file to recreate the zone my-zone.

   global# zonecfg -z my-zone -f my-zone.config

3. Install the zone.

   global# zoneadm -z my-zone install

4. To prevent the system from displaying the sysidtool questions upon initial zone login, delete the file zonepath/root/etc/.UNCONFIGURED, for example:

   global# rm /export/home/my-zone/root/etc/.UNCONFIGURED

5. If you have any zone-specific files to restore, such as application data, manually restore (and possibly hand-merge) files from a backup into the newly created zone's root file system.