Hello all,
My freenas box is 5x2gb hard drives in RAIDz2. My total space is 5.8tb. Today I purchased a 6th drive (2tb). After reading Cyber's noob guide, I understand that I cant add this drive to the existing VDev. With that in mind my attention is pointed to rebuilding my server =( Copying my data off the server is not that big of a deal. What bothers me is all of the hours of configuration and research that I put in, getting all my plugins and jails to be fine tuned, stable and efficient. I am aware of the save config button and that's fine and handy for the gui settings. Please tell me there is some snap shot trick or some way to back up my folder structure, plugins and jails. Now that I think about it, even if I was able to backup my file structure, when it came time to copy it all back wonder if there would be a permissions circus?
Also, just out of curiosity, why does the freenas gui under storage, zfs manager, it has an option for extending my volume?
I really don't want to rebuild, my server is running like a champ. Any options at all for adding this last drive?
Thank you
My freenas box is 5x2gb hard drives in RAIDz2. My total space is 5.8tb. Today I purchased a 6th drive (2tb). After reading Cyber's noob guide, I understand that I cant add this drive to the existing VDev. With that in mind my attention is pointed to rebuilding my server =( Copying my data off the server is not that big of a deal. What bothers me is all of the hours of configuration and research that I put in, getting all my plugins and jails to be fine tuned, stable and efficient. I am aware of the save config button and that's fine and handy for the gui settings. Please tell me there is some snap shot trick or some way to back up my folder structure, plugins and jails. Now that I think about it, even if I was able to backup my file structure, when it came time to copy it all back wonder if there would be a permissions circus?
Also, just out of curiosity, why does the freenas gui under storage, zfs manager, it has an option for extending my volume?
I really don't want to rebuild, my server is running like a champ. Any options at all for adding this last drive?
Thank you