adrianwi
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Since building my new FreeNAS system, I've been using the old HP Microserver as a backup running nightly replication. I have 7 disks (RaidZ2) in the new system, and only 4 in the HP box so this was set-up a stripe with no redundancy. It was over 80% full, so thought I'd add another disk and thought I'd be able to extend the pool without having to destroy and recreate it.
I've gone back to the manual and Cyberjocks presentation, and this seems to suggest this is possible, but through the GUI when I try to add the disk to the existing volume in Volume Manager it says:
Do I need to do this a different way, or do I have to destroy the existing pool, recreate and then replicate all 14TB+ of data again?
Fully understand it won't have any redundancy, but it doesn't now. The redundancy is built into my main box which hopefully means I'll never need the backup!
I've gone back to the manual and Cyberjocks presentation, and this seems to suggest this is possible, but through the GUI when I try to add the disk to the existing volume in Volume Manager it says:
Code:
You are trying to add a virtual device consisting of 1 device(s) in a pool that has a virtual device consisted of 4 device(s)
Do I need to do this a different way, or do I have to destroy the existing pool, recreate and then replicate all 14TB+ of data again?
Fully understand it won't have any redundancy, but it doesn't now. The redundancy is built into my main box which hopefully means I'll never need the backup!