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Hi Dan V.<br>
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Great idea on the creating a new BE and receiving the snapshot
into it. <br>
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Being able to keep the original configuration so I can "revert" in
the event of an issue is important. <br>
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Any of the smf services I can just export out and import in the
BE.<br>
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thanks!!<br>
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Geoff <br>
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On 15-11-18 12:47 PM, Dan Vatca wrote:<br>
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<div>This is what I did (in broad strokes):</div>
<div>1. create a new boot environment (beadm create)</div>
<div>2. receive the @initial snapshot of an OmniOS install over
the created dataset</div>
<div>3. copy over some configuration files from /etc to the new
boot environment</div>
<div>4. boot the new copy</div>
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<div>It is not actually an upgrade, as an IPS based upgrade is
not possible due to the way OmniOS versions packages.</div>
<div>This is the closest you can get, and will have some
advantages over installing a fresh one:</div>
<div>1. will keep your old install, so you can go back if
anything fails</div>
<div>2. in terms of downtime, it will be equivalent to an
upgrade, as you won't be down during a fresh install (if all
you need is the IP configuration and the data pool(s)
imported) ...</div>
<div>This is not perfect, as you will have trouble finding an
easy way to bring over your STMF configuration, and some other
things kept in "binary" form from the OI root.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 10:05 PM, Geoff
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On Nov 13, 2015, at 3:26 PM, Geoff Nordli <<a
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Hi.<br>
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I am migrating a couple of machines from OI to OmniOS.<br>
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Is it possible to install omnios into a new boot
environment so I can keep both the install of OI and
then boot between them?<br>
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Wow. I don't know. It's *theoretically possible* but I
think you'd have to install OmniOS on a VM, zfs
snapshot-and-send the rpool/ROOT/<be> to the OI
box, and manually construct an OmniOS BE around that
received ZFS snapshot, including adding GRUB entries.<br>
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Haven't tried it myself.<br>
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Dan<br>
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