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Migrating all your iocage jails to a new host

Leave a Comment / DELL, Disks, FreeBSD, hardware, iocage, Jails, Open Source, R710, R720 / By Dan Langille / October 26, 2019

In this post, I’m not exporting an iocage jail to another host. I am moving the entire iocage instance to another host. This is accomplished by doing a zfs export on the zpool, moving the drives to a new system, and doing a zfs import. The drive migration is covered in a previous post. In […]

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Migrating drives and the zpool from one host to another.

Today is the day. Today I move a zpool from an R710 into an R720. The goal: all services on that zpool start running on the new host. Fortunately, that zpool is dedicated to jails, more or less. I have done some planning about this, including moving a poudriere on the R710 into a jail.