[OpenIndiana-discuss] to update oi to hipster or install hipster ...

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Mon, 7 Nov 2016, Harry Putnam wrote:
>
> I have another pair of matching mirrored disks with the main data, but
> still plenty of room on that setup to send/receive the zfs fs I do
> have on the rpool disk.
>
> Then I could just leave those data discs out of the install,
> incorporating them after.
>
> I seem to remember there being some technique to do that.
>
> Something you do prior to shutdown preceding a new install that allows
> to retrieve them after...?

If you keep your data on different disks than the root pool, then just 
due 'zpool export' and then later 'zpool import'.

Thanks for asking this question.  I am also thinking about update vs 
install.

Bob
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