Moving jails from one computer to another

[pete wright]

On 10/25/06, Doug Poland <doug at polands.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm curious if anyone has comments on moving a jail environment from
> one computer to another.  Not having actually tried it yet, it would
> seem to be possible given:
>
> Both computers:
>    are the same arch (i386, in my case).
>    are running the same kernel and userland (e.g., FreeBSD RELENG_6_1)
>    have identical jail environments (e.g., sysutils/ezjail)
>
> Of course, minor modifications may need to be made for IP addresses
> and such.
>
> It would seem this scenario would be good for developing things like
> web-based applications on a development server, then deploying the
> final product to a production server.
>
> Comments, thoughts, criticisms welcomed.
>
>

yea, this is actually one the larger benefits of jailing IMO.  i've
used this method to help setup distributed mirroring of websites for
some OSS projects.

-pete



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