From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 25 17:04:38 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3381B16A407 for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 17:04:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nomadlogic@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0102.google.com (nz-out-0102.google.com [64.233.162.206]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2485143D77 for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 17:04:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nomadlogic@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id r28so139255nza for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 10:04:16 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=JHuzzaWT+/2P5hEu4uC6v2rSR8CMni4V8Wf4wjqAI6NjyQDOGi6124gac7fQfPwYSWqEbLm9hmswaUVdP8Kn6MuqpV4YJKp8kqJzwePG31Qp8dEhX3w973qzX3bFdqYLkaZASMP8yFPcKBdFl3/auGTENTt0HIPB7z3YSCkTWDs= Received: by 10.35.57.5 with SMTP id j5mr1388637pyk; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 10:04:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.35.130.17 with HTTP; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 10:04:13 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <57d710000610251004i4fec5396sd317aa53ab3e6800@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 10:04:13 -0700 From: "pete wright" To: "Doug Poland" In-Reply-To: <52897.209.103.215.99.1161792901.squirrel@email.polands.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <52897.209.103.215.99.1161792901.squirrel@email.polands.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Moving jails from one computer to another X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 17:04:38 -0000 On 10/25/06, Doug Poland wrote: > Hello, > > I'm curious if anyone has comments on moving a jail environment from > one computer to another. Not having actually tried it yet, it would > seem to be possible given: > > Both computers: > are the same arch (i386, in my case). > are running the same kernel and userland (e.g., FreeBSD RELENG_6_1) > have identical jail environments (e.g., sysutils/ezjail) > > Of course, minor modifications may need to be made for IP addresses > and such. > > It would seem this scenario would be good for developing things like > web-based applications on a development server, then deploying the > final product to a production server. > > Comments, thoughts, criticisms welcomed. > > yea, this is actually one the larger benefits of jailing IMO. i've used this method to help setup distributed mirroring of websites for some OSS projects. -pete -- ~~o0OO0o~~ Pete Wright www.nycbug.org NYC's *BSD User Group