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Date:      Sun, 08 Jul 2007 00:34:17 +0200
From:      Volker <volker@vwsoft.com>
To:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   moving a zfs pool
Message-ID:  <469014E9.5050906@vwsoft.com>

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Hi,

this is more likely currently a theoretical question: How does one
move a zfs pool from one machine to another?

I've done that in the past a lot with ufs filesystems by piping a dump
through an ssh session and restoring on another machine just to move
data to another system. This should also work on a per filesystem
basis when using zfs but isn't there a way to move the whole pool to
another machine (w/o physically moving the hard disk)?

This would be the case when migrating a machine or migrating hard
disks. The zfs export feature doesn't look promising for this or do I
misread some bits? Please don't tell me, 42 is the answer... ;)

I'm missing something I would call 'zpool dump' and 'zpool restore'.

Thanks!

Volker



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