Hi Crz,
As far as I know the failover zone is a cluster resource on it's own. I might be able to test this setup later this month, but I'm not sure of that yet.
Anyway if somebody feels interested in this, then the sun cluster data service docs for HA containers (zones) can be found
here.
The thing is that this data service agent has two options of which you can choose to monitor and manage applications inside the zone. One option is to use scripts like init scripts and the other is to use solaris Service Management Facility. Either way we have the chance to check for ports or any command outputs like bpdbjobs which can idicate us if netbackup is up and running so we can make decisions whether to fail over or not. Also we can provide start and stop scripts eg to run bp.kill_all if we want to stop netbackup, before we would failover the zone.
In this setup I think NBU (as you mentioned) doesn't see the difference between a failover zone or a single local zone as everything moves together.
Hope I can try it out soon. If I have any news I'll update you.
Thanks again Crz, I appreciate your input.
Cheers,
Miro.