I asked this question on Google group list of now dead Jail management tool for FreeBSD (iocage)
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!to...ge/-vV7PHKH5tk
The timing of this post might be little unfortunate as iocage seems dead but one of the reasons that I foolishly chose to run several services on two FreeBSD jail hosts was ability to take advantage of ZFS via iocage. Namely I am taking regularly the snapshots of the jails using the cron job. I was wondering how people remotely replicate those snapshots (zfs send or zxfer or zfs-replicate) The idea is obvious. I would like to have hourly snaphosts of my current jail instances on the remote host and to be able to import them and fire them up on the short notice if the first host malfunction.
I just read Michael Lucas' FreeBSD Mastery: Advanced ZFS
https://www.michaelwlucas.com/nonfiction/fmaz
and even though the whole chapter is devoted to Jail specific topics as well as parts of the last chapter Pot-pourri I could not find any authoritative advise to my question above. Any takers?