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Solaris Zone Migration with no Downtime

Step 1: 

Export zone to be migrated 
zonecfg -z  zonename export -f /abc

Step 2: 

modify the zone config according to next/destination server 

Step 3: 

Take tar /cpio backup of zonepath
tar cvf zone.tar /zone/zonename

step 4: 

do scp or tapebackup and restore the zone data on destination server

step 5: 

zonecfg -z zonename -f zone-config-file_from_old_server
zoneadm -z zonename boot


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