Migrating whole Jails to new drive

[FrancoisC]

Good evening all,

I'm on FreeNAS-11.3-U3.

I bought two new drives and created a new pool "EVO970".
Original pool is called "EVO960".

I manage to do a replication and duplicate the entire pool. (from "EVO960" to "EVO970") using the Wizard.

I read these posts and look for several others:

Howto: migrate data from one pool to a bigger pool

There have been a lot of posts recently about how to move data from one pool to another. Usually it's because folks want to upgrade to a much larger pool and the drive-by-drive resilvering process will take too long. I've recently gone through this as well. Here are the steps that I followed...

www.truenas.com

Moving Jails from main volume to new SSD volume

So I want to move my jails from my main volume (Vol1) to a mirrored pair of 240GB SSDs (Jails). I know some other people on here have done it but I am unable to find the threads on how to do it. So what do I need to do to move the data safely?

www.truenas.com

I did follow most instructions but I would like to keep the name of my new pool.
Is there a way to simply move the system to use the two new drives without using zpool import/export commands?

After replication, I just did "iocage activate EVO970" in the shell, but both jails are marked as "CORRUPT".
I changed the "Pool for Plugin and Jail Storage" for EVO960 and it works flawlessly (but not on EVO970).

Could someone give me some hints onwhere to mention the Pool name has been changed?
Thank you very much all!

 

[FrancoisC]

I managed to make it work by simply modifying the fstab file

How to move iocage jails from one ZFS pool to another?

What is the process to move iocage and all its jails from one ZFS pool to another? I've tried the process from this post: https://www.ixsystems.com/community/threads/how-to-move-jails-between-pools.

serverfault.com

I really hope this is common/normal practice.

 

[luckyal]

I managed to make it work by simply modifying the fstab file

How to move iocage jails from one ZFS pool to another?

What is the process to move iocage and all its jails from one ZFS pool to another? I've tried the process from this post: https://www.ixsystems.com/community/threads/how-to-move-jails-between-pools.

serverfault.com

I really hope this is common/normal practice.

Hey thanks for this. I am going through right now and trying to edit fstab but I get Permission denied. Any ideas? I'm logged into TrueNAS as root.

 

[sretalla]

I really hope this is common/normal practice.

I doubt it.

You may find that it gets messed up horribly when you do the next upgrade and the settings from the config db overwrite it.

At a minimum, you should check if you have the pool defined properly in the Jails settings.

 

[FrancoisC]

Hey thanks for this. I am going through right now and trying to edit fstab but I get Permission denied. Any ideas? I'm logged into TrueNAS as root.

chmod / file Access rights?

 

[FrancoisC]

I doubt it.

You may find that it gets messed up horribly when you do the next upgrade and the settings from the config db overwrite it.

At a minimum, you should check if you have the pool defined properly in the Jails settings.

Damn... I'll check but it works flawlessly.