Solaris™ is a true and venerable UNIX® system and the UNIX® logo inspires great trust in those that use Solaris. Long term stability and reliability are both clear indications of strict adherance to well engineered standards and testing methods. The only drawback to such steadfast and loyal standards compliance is that Solaris servers tend to outlast all those that surround them. System longevity is further magnified when we combine the Solaris Operating System with Sun Hardware and then ensure that the power and cooling systems are well provided for. Carefully planned IT infrastructure often results in production servers that are over ten years old and still running three hundred and sixty five days a year flawlessly. How then does one escape the dread of critical production loss? How will an IT manager finally be able to safely migrate away from servers that were purchased in 1998? The solution is to be found in Solaris 10 and a virtualization technology called the “Solaris Container”. Thanks to the release of “Solaris Containers” we may now migrate away from Solaris 8 both fearlessly and effortlessly. This article gives a brief overview of this new technology and illustrates how one may perform a backup and restore operation which results in the Solaris 8 production server running within a resource controlled “Solaris Container”.