Moving a Jail plugin to another Freenas setup

[marxtinus2]

Hi community, I have a Jail in my freenas 11.2 that requires a lot of tweeking and config to work the way I like it to work. OpenVPN config firewall setting and else. Is it possible to replicate this setup in another instance of freenas or I need to rebuild it from scratch?

 

[gt2416]

You can create a backup of your jail with iocage export <jail name> and import that file (along with the key file it generates) with iocage import <jail name>

 

[ccav]

Ťhank you

 

[YaMoef]

Hello, I want to upgrade my FreeNas server, but I would like to start from a clean build and a newer version, is it possible to export jails across different versions? Or am I better off starting from scratch? Thank you.

 

[sretalla]

is it possible to export jails across different versions? Or am I better off starting from scratch?

Possible, but not great... you really want new jails if you can do it. Use it as a chance to document your jail setup and ensure that all data lives in mounts and not in the jail root.

 

[YaMoef]

Ah ok didn't think about redocumenting and moving the data out of the jail root, most of it was out of the jail root since I'm following guides mostly on setting up jails. I'll start from scratch thank you for your response.