I've never done that, but it must be worth a go, unless you want to just
install a new system in the new disk and copy over the files you want to
change afterwards ...

On Sat, 20 Jun 2020, 23:46 Judah Richardson, <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 2:29 AM Guenther Alka <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Another option is to backup the current BE to the datapool via zfs send.
> >
> Would it be possible to just zfs send everything from the current SSD to
> the new one, then enable autoexpand on the new SSD and make it bootable?
>
> This can be done continously via incremental send for ongoing backups.
> > If the system disk fails (or you want to replace), add a new disk,
> > install a default OS, import the datapool and restore the BE via zfs
> > send. Then activate this BE and reboot to have the exact former OS
> > installation restored.
> >
> >   Gea
> > @napp-it.org
> >
> > Am 19.06.2020 um 21:19 schrieb Gary Mills:
> > > On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 01:23:35PM -0500, Judah Richardson wrote:
> > >> I currently run OpenIndiana Hipster on a 32 GB SSD. I'd like move that
> > >> installation to a 128 GB SSD. What's the easiest way to do this?
> > > The easiest way is to use zpool commands.  First, add the large SSD as
> > > half a mirror to the smaller one.  Then, detach the smaller one.
> > > These options are all described in the zpool man page.
> > >
> > > You will likely need to use the installboot command on the large SSD
> > > to make it bootable before you do the detach.  This operation is
> > > described in the installboot man page.
> > >
> > >> I was thinking of using Clonezilla, but I'm not sure if that's the way
> > to
> > >> go here.
> > > I'd recommend using native illumos commands instead.
> > >
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