A readers digest version of transferring a jail from one host to another.

[James B. Byrne]

On Fri, June 30, 2017 19:37, Ben Woods wrote:
> Hi James,
>
> With ezjail the easiest way to take a copy of a jail and move it to
> another host is with the build in archive/restore process.
>
> Old server:
> # ezjail-admin stop jailname
> # ezjail-admin archive jailname
>
> <Then copy the  archive file to new server (same directory). By
> default it will be in /usr/jails/ezjail_archives.>
>
> New server:
> # ezjail-admin restore archivefilename
> # ezjail-admin start jailname
>
> For more details and optional arguements to these commands you can
> refer to the manpage:
> http://man.freebsd.org/ezjail-admin
>
> Regards,
> Ben

Thank you for the advice.  It was most useful now that I have finally
gotten to use it.  I did mention that I was pressed for time.  I
simply did not realize just how pressed I would be.

After creating and transferring the archives to the target host what I
ended up doing was a variant of this command:

ezjail-admin create \
  -a /usr/jails/ezjail_archives/hllmx18-201707041251.23.tar.gz \
  hllmx150 'lo1|127.0.150.1,lo1|::150:1,re0|192.168.209.150'

Which produced exactly the result I sought.

Thanks again.

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