Move jails hard way to iocage

Jacques Foucry jacques+freebsd at foucry.net
Sat Mar 27 08:28:40 UTC 2021


Le vendredi 26 mars 2021 à 15:16:27 (+0100), Miroslav Lachman à écrit:
> On 26/03/2021 10:28, Jacques Foucry wrote:
> > Hello Friends,
> > 
> > I run many jails, configured in the "hard way" (ie `/etc/jail.conf` file) and
> > I would like to move them into iocage.
> > 
> > I can't find any help on the Internet (may be I did search corretly).
> > 
> > Did some own have a pointer or a how-to?
> 
> I am not using iocage but it should not be hard. I guess you can create 
> jails with names and setting you want (not start them) and then move 
> (rename) ZFS filesystems if they are used in your current setup. Or just 
> move files with rsync from old jail to new jail. What will be better for 
> your setup.


That's the way Dan Langille use in
https://dan.langille.org/2019/04/08/converting-thin-jails-to-thick-jails/, and
I will use this experience for moving my jail.conf

Thanks for your answer and your time

-- 
Jacques Foucry


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