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Old 02-26-2009
Question regarding Zone Migration

I have a general question regarding Zone Migration.

I have an older system that is currently running a zone configured with ProFTPD & SSL.

If I want to migrate or clone that zone to another (much newer) system, will I still have to setup & configure ProFTPD & SSL on the new system?
# 2  
Old 02-26-2009
Probably not, unless maybe if you change the IP address, hostname or domainname.
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Old 02-26-2009
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Originally Posted by jlliagre
Probably not, unless maybe if you change the IP address, hostname or domainname.
cool! nothing will change, only the hardware. we are decommisioning the old server and this is the last zone i need to migrate, but i am not having any luck configuring ProFTPD/SSL that they are using on the new system, so I was wondering if detaching or cloning the zone would be better.
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Old 02-27-2009
Hey em23:

This will only work for sure, if you do not change the Solaris Release. After some heavy troubles migrating sol zones from Solaris 10 U2 or U4 to current, we decided to reinstall software in a newly created zone. I dunno how "standard" software, like ProFTPD and SSL, reacts on this...
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