Backing Up Jail Configuration

[NASbox]

I am just beginning to look at using jails, but the (likely?) possibility of a FreeNAS update screwing up my jails scares me. Is there a way (command line OK - maybe even preferred) to backup a jail setup so it can be quickly restored without having to document and reproduce all the steps on the GUI. If the data is outide the jail it should make the jail pretty much disposable - or am I missing something?

 

[garm]

Jails should be treated as volatile, most applications have a backup strategy. But if you really want to bother, look at iocage export

 

[NASbox]

Jails should be treated as volatile, most applications have a backup strategy. But if you really want to bother, look at iocage export

Thanks @garm I know there isn't tons of settings, but there are a number of settings that need to be entered to recreate the jail/mountpoints etc. It would be nice not to have to remember it.... just code into a script... if it's necessary to recreate the jail... just run the script. As for the contents of the jail, that's more or less standard unix backup -- shouldn't be too much of a problem.

Comments/suggestions.

 

[sretalla]

Comments/suggestions

If you really want to get into that, @ornias wrote a nice tool called jailman that simplifies the rapid recreation of jails...

Jailman: Automated management of pseudo-custom FreeNAS jails

JailMan is a collection of shell scripts designed to make it easier to install all sorts of iocage Jails on FreeNAS. ---- There are a lot of great scripts out there to create all sorts of custom jails on FreeNAS. Sadly enough, they all take...

www.ixsystems.com

 

[Jailer]

but the (likely?) possibility of a FreeNAS update screwing up my jails scares me.

Jails aren't touched when you update FreeNAS.