[OpenIndiana-discuss] Replacing smaller rpool SSD with bigger one - best praxis

[Bill Sommerfeld]

On 3/7/23 13:53, gea wrote:
> I suppose a method based on mirror/clone + autoexpand will not work with 
> different ashift.
> 
> A disaster backup/recovery method that should work:
> - replicate current BE to datapool via zfs send
>    (you can create daily recoverable backups while OI is running with 
> this method)

If you can have all the disks cabled up at the same time, you can use 
the '-p' option to 'beadm create' to create a BE in a different pool; 
I've used this to move the root a few times (the root pool on one of my 
machines is currently named "r3").