Best practice to transfert jail from host to host

[CyrilP]

Hi,

I'm using VirtualBox to set up some jail on my workstation. Once I'm happy with my jail, how can I send it to my freenas (physical one).

I read several things about that and I'm still looking for the best solution:

1 - zfs send/receive the entire jail dataset to my remote zpool (in the jail folder)
2 - tar gz everything in the rootfs jail, create a new jail, deploy my tar in the new jail

I've seen that ezjail is doing a tar.gz to save, then create a new dataset and deploy the tar in it (option-2).

In the case of I have the same release of Freenas between my dev environment and my physical NAS, what will you recommend?

Thanks

 

[cyberjock]

ZFS replication.. no question about it.

 

[CyrilP]

what do you mean exactly?

 

[diedrichg]

He was saying 'yes' to option #1.

 

[CyrilP]

That's also what I thought :) I have to play with now.