On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 3:26 AM Jonathan Adams <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Unfortunately I'm currently redundant

Ugh, I'm sorry to hear that. I've been made redundant myself 3 times :(

and don't have access to what was my
> illumos hardware ...
>
> I'd suggest you use the nappit suggestion, and do the backup from within
> the old system before swapping the disks over ...
>
> As for the ashift, it's been a few years since I did a fresh install, and
> I've forgotten how to force an ashift on a device during installation ...
>
Out of curiosity, is the method I described here
<https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/how-do-i-migrate-openindiana-hipster-installation-from-512k-mbr-legacy-boot-32-gb-ssd-to-4k-gpt-uefi-boot-128-gb-ssd.29223/post-270825>
in line with your previous suggestion of installing a default OI and then zfs
send-ing the old SSD's rpool snapshot to the new SSD's rpool? Does that
look like it would work?

>
> Jon
>
> On Mon, 22 Jun 2020, 08:10 Guenther Alka, <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > hello Judah
> >
> > Am 22.06.2020 um 05:00 schrieb Judah Richardson:
> > > On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 2:29 AM Guenther Alka <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > >> Another option is to backup the current BE
> > > How would I determine which one is current?
> > >
> > > to the datapool via zfs send.
> >
> > In napp-it, check menu Snapshots > Bootenvironment, at console beadm list
> > Look in the list for N=curreNt, R=Reboot. Normally you find one with NR
> > that is current and the one for next reboot.
> >
> > If you create a napp-it replication job, it automatically shows only the
> > current BE as filesystem source together with all other regular
> > filesystems.
> >
> > >> This can be done continously via incremental send for ongoing backups.
> > >> If the system disk fails (or you want to replace), add a new disk,
> > >> install a default OS, import the datapool and restore the BE
> > > What exactly are the commands for this?
> > >
> > > via zfs
> >
> > Use napp-it menu Jobs > Replicate > create then start the job. On first
> > run it replicates the whole filesystem, on next run only modified
> > datablock (incremental zfs send)
> >
> > On console, create a snapshot of the current BE filesystem and use it
> > for a zfs send
> > Look at https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E36784_01/html/E36835/gbinw.html or
> > other basic ZFS manuals
> >
> > >> send.
> > > What would a command for this look like?
> > >
> > > Could folks kindly be more specific and detailed in their replies,
> > please?
> > > A lot of these are just really generic and I'm not really sure how to
> > > proceed based on them.
> > >
> > > Then activate this BE and reboot to have the exact former OS
> >
> > After you restored the BE filesystem via another replication job or zfs
> > send on the new installation use napp-it menu Snaps > Bootenvironment or
> > "beadm activate bename" to set a BE active for next reboot. In beadm
> > list you show the current marked with N and the activated one marked
> > with R (will become current after a Reboot).
> >
> > >> installation restored.
> > >>
> > >>    Gea
> > >> @napp-it.org
> > >>
> > >>
> >
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