Move jail to new drive

[sakings7402]

I was running my jail for plex on an external hard drive. I am now updating my server and want to move my current jail as is to the new internal drive. I want to do this in order to speed things up so that it is not trying to run things off of a external usb drive

 

[Alecmascot]

iocage export and import

 

[sretalla]

iocage export and import

Note that export puts the jails into the /pool/iocage/images dataset, which you then need to move to the new pool, after you set it in the UI, then you can import them by name directly.

so, stop all your jails, then:

iocage export jailname (for each jail)

Change the jails pool setting in the UI to the new pool.

Move over /oldpool/iocage/images contents to /newpool/iocage/images

iocage import jailname (for each jail)

 

[Alecmascot]

Note that export puts the jails into the /pool/iocage/images dataset, which you then need to move to the new pool, after you set it in the UI, then you can import them by name directly.

so, stop all your jails, then:

iocage export jailname (for each jail)

Change the jails pool setting in the UI to the new pool.

Move over /oldpool/iocage/images contents to /newpool/iocage/images

iocage import jailname (for each jail)

you take all the fun of discovery out of it )

 

[nickdems]

Note that export puts the jails into the /pool/iocage/images dataset, which you then need to move to the new pool, after you set it in the UI, then you can import them by name directly.

so, stop all your jails, then:

iocage export jailname (for each jail)

Change the jails pool setting in the UI to the new pool.

Move over /oldpool/iocage/images contents to /newpool/iocage/images

iocage import jailname (for each jail)

Hi Sretalla,
I followed these steps, but when i try to start the new jail i get :
Error: [EFAULT] Stopped plex due to VNET failure

Any ideas on what i should do here ?
Thnx

 

[Patrick M. Hausen]

@sretalla Why use this export/import mechanism at all? I just

- stop all jails
- zfs send|receive the entire iocage dataset and all children
- iocage activate the new pool
- start all jails

Done. And of course this works from one machine to another one, too.

Kind regards,
Patrick

 

[sretalla]

@sretalla Why use this export/import mechanism at all? I just

- stop all jails
- zfs send|receive the entire iocage dataset and all children
- iocage activate the new pool
- start all jails

Done. And of course this works from one machine to another one, too.

If it works, great!

I had not so great experience with that in the past, so had always used the listed method.

Happy to be corrected to a better/quicker way.

 

[nickdems]

@sretalla Why use this export/import mechanism at all? I just

- stop all jails
- zfs send|receive the entire iocage dataset and all children
- iocage activate the new pool
- start all jails

Done. And of course this works from one machine to another one, too.

Kind regards,
Patrick

i get the same bloody vnet error with this method, any ideas ?

 

[Patrick M. Hausen]

Did you iocage activate the new pool? What does iocage list show? What does iocage get all plex show? Did you move the jails to a machine with a different name for the network interface you are using? That's another reason to always explicitly create a bridge interface for the jails.