Hi Dan V.
Great idea on the creating a new BE and receiving the snapshot into it.
Being able to keep the original configuration so I can "revert" in the
event of an issue is important.
Any of the smf services I can just export out and import in the BE.
thanks!!
Geoff
On 15-11-18 12:47 PM, Dan Vatca wrote:
Hi Geoff,
This is what I did (in broad strokes):
1. create a new boot environment (beadm create)
2. receive the @initial snapshot of an OmniOS install over the created
dataset
3. copy over some configuration files from /etc to the new boot
environment
4. boot the new copy
It is not actually an upgrade, as an IPS based upgrade is not possible
due to the way OmniOS versions packages.
This is the closest you can get, and will have some advantages over
installing a fresh one:
1. will keep your old install, so you can go back if anything fails
2. in terms of downtime, it will be equivalent to an upgrade, as you
won't be down during a fresh install (if all you need is the IP
configuration and the data pool(s) imported) ...
This is not perfect, as you will have trouble finding an easy way to
bring over your STMF configuration, and some other things kept in
"binary" form from the OI root.
Dan Vâtca
CTO at Syneto
Tel: +40723604357, Skype: dan_vatca
<http://www.syneto.net/>
On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 10:05 PM, Geoff Nordli <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On 15-11-13 12:36 PM, Dan McDonald wrote:
On Nov 13, 2015, at 3:26 PM, Geoff Nordli <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi.
I am migrating a couple of machines from OI to OmniOS.
Is it possible to install omnios into a new boot
environment so I can keep both the install of OI and then
boot between them?
Wow. I don't know. It's *theoretically possible* but I think
you'd have to install OmniOS on a VM, zfs snapshot-and-send
the rpool/ROOT/<be> to the OI box, and manually construct an
OmniOS BE around that received ZFS snapshot, including adding
GRUB entries.
Haven't tried it myself.
Dan
Thanks Dan, I will do some testing to see how it works.
Geoff
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