Migrating / Backup bhyve and jails

[Junicast]

Hi,

I need to reinstall my FreeNAS System and I need to create a new/blank array. My data I would like to migrate. Plain files I just copy to external hard drives in order to copy it back to the new volume later, ez.

Some questions still remain:
1) How do I migrate my jails? I cannot directly transfer to a new ZFS volume via zfs send, because I only have temporary storage on Linux with EXT4.
2) Same with my bhyve guests
3) Since TrueNAS 12 is in front of us, should I use that opportunity to migrate to native ZFS encryption? Right now I'm using GELI but the future seems to be ZFS encryption, right?

Thank you

 

[Patrick M. Hausen]

You can zfs send a dataset or zvol into a file, then later zfs receive from that ...

Code:

zfs send mypool/my/dataset@snapshot > /mnt/some/where/my-dataset
zfs receive mypool/my/dataset < /mnt/some/where/my-dataset

 

[garm]

Iocage has a tool for that