Cheers, Brian I was trying to think of the minimum I needed to get going. What about /etc/zones?
Gareth On 12 February 2018 at 22:28:33, Brian Bennett ([email protected]) wrote: > Gareth, > > Doing the entire zones pool is probably superfluous. Really, the only > important data is the contents of /opt/custom, /usbkey/config and the > individual zone datasets (including origin images). Copying the entire > zones zpool will duplicate things like /var, which will have duplicate > mount points off of / and cause conflicts when the pool imports. > > -- > Brian Bennett > Systems Engineer, Cloud Operations > Joyent, Inc. | www.joyent.com > > On Feb 12, 2018, at 6:16 AM, Gareth Howell <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Further to previous posts on upgrading my two home servers, I seem to have > hit an intractable problem on the main server and now need to restore it > from the backup server. I use ZnapZend to send `zones` and all descendents > to the other server so I have a good replica of the main server on the > backup. > > I’ve cloned the backup server’s `zones` hierarchy on to an eSATA disk and > connected it to the main server as `zznew`; which now has a virgin `zones` > pool after a reinstall of SmartOS. > > I’m guessing there needs to be some combination of -e or -f in the `zfs > send -R zznew/backup/deneb/zones | zfs recv` command and that this needs to > be run with the server in recovery mode and with both pools on alternate > mountpoints with no datasets mounted. > > Any clues: the `zfs` manual is a bit light on the -e and -f options to the > `recv` sub-command. > > Gareth > > http://www.listbox.com > > ------------------------------ > ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
