Detach the mirror disk from the old rpool. Import detached drive into new system w/ a new name
Copy data --- On Mon, 8/1/11, Harry Putnam <[email protected]> wrote: From: Harry Putnam <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] exporting rpool with system running To: [email protected] Date: Monday, August 1, 2011, 7:14 AM Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <[email protected]> writes: > AFAIK, exporting an rpool while running on it, is quite > impossible. Why would you want to export it? So use livecd then? The reasons to do this have been discussed here at least twice. Thats why I didn't include that information. Thinking about it again after your prompt though I see I should have included at least a brief outline of why. So briefly put: The hardware is giving up the ghost. The machine will start and run for maybe 10-15 minutes and then stops with no log errors evident. Rather than worry with the old outdated equipment I plan to build up a newer hardware setup. Install openindiana on a pair of smallish disks for the new (mirrored) rpool and then import all the old zpools including the oldrpool (renamed) which, unfortunately, also has data I'd like to keep on it. Oldrpool is also on a mirrored pair of disks. So I thought to leave oldrpool exported to facilitate the above approach. Install the disks containing oldrpool and import it using the new setup, then dump all the old rpool OS related stuff and keep the wanted data on a renamed zpool. Better ideas are welcome. _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
