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Oracle Solaris 11 Advanced Administration Cookbook

You're reading from   Oracle Solaris 11 Advanced Administration Cookbook Over 50 advanced recipes to help you configure and administer Oracle Solaris systems

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2014
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ISBN-13 9781849688260
Length 478 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. IPS and Boot Environments 2. ZFS FREE CHAPTER 3. Networking 4. Zones 5. Playing with Oracle Solaris 11 Services 6. Configuring and Using an Automated Installer (AI) Server 7. Configuring and Administering RBAC and Least Privileges 8. Administering and Monitoring Processes 9. Configuring the Syslog and Monitoring Performance Index

Creating a ZFS snapshot and clone


A ZFS snapshot and clone play fundamental roles in the ZFS framework and in Oracle Solaris 11, as there are many uses for these features, and one of them is to execute backup and restore files from the ZFS filesystem. For example, a snapshot could be handy when either there is some corruption in the ZFS filesystem or a user loses a specific file. Using ZFS snapshots makes it possible to completely rollback the ZFS filesystem to a specific point or date.

Getting ready

To follow this recipe, it is necessary to use a virtual machine (VMware or VirtualBox) that runs Oracle Solaris 11 with 4 GB RAM and eight 4 GB disks. Once the virtual machine is up and running, log in as the root user and open a terminal.

How to do it…

Creating a snapshot is a fundamental task that can be executed by running the following commands:

root@solaris11-1:~# zpool create pool_1 c8t3d0
root@solaris11-1:~# zfs create pool_1/fs_1

Before continuing, I suggest that we copy some big files to...

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