Recreate a jail

[Lordadmiral Drake]

I just had to reinstall FreeNAS due to a system drive failure.
I had an svn server running in a jail for my programming project.

Now is there a way to get that jail back (the data is still there) to the state it was in just before the failure?

 

[danb35]

The jails are ordinarily on the data pool, so none of your data or software there should be affected. If you have a backup of your config file, just upload it and you'll be set. Otherwise, look around here--I know there's been a thread or two recently addressing this situation, though I don't recall where off the top of my head.

 

[cyberjock]

All you have to do is point the jail location to where it was. Reboot and like magic your jails should start working properly. This doesn't work on plugins though as they store special info in your config file that is lost if you lose your config file.

 

[Lordadmiral Drake]

I did not have any plugins installed before the reinstall, I did install one after though.
What I did now was:
zfs rename datasets from .../jails_2 to .../jails
zfs destroy .../jails_2
Set jails folder to .../jails
Now, the dataset that was .../jails_2/mineos_1 had to be promoted so I could destroy jails_2
so I renamed .../jails/mineos_1 to .../jails/mineos_2, created a new mineos_1 dataset and rsynced the contents of the renamed folder to the new dataset.

Finally, I probably need to tell MineOS to look for it's data in the new location