[OpenIndiana-discuss] Moving ZFS pool between systems ?

Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) openindiana at nedharvey.com
Thu May 30 14:18:34 UTC 2013


> From: Svavar Örn Eysteinsson [mailto:svavar at fiton.is]
> 
> So my question, is it as simple as "zpool export datapool" on the orginal
> machine
> and "zpool import" on the new one ?

Should be that simple.  Yes.  As long as you're not doing any proprietary hardware RAID on the disks, and you ensure the zpool capabilities on the new system are at least as good as the zpool capabilities on the old system.



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