Hi,
I'm looking to convert my current 2-disk mirror vdev into a 3-drive Raidz1 vdev. It's all 4TB drives.
I am aware that this will involve having to wipe the disks. I'm just wondering what the best way is to back up the data for easy importing after the fact.
I currently do have 2 2TB drives which i intend to use for the purpose of (temporarily) backing up whatever data is currently on the NAS, however i can't fit those into the system directly due to a lack of sata ports. If needed i am able to set up a temporary second freenas system.
Main things i'd like to keep intact are my jails/plugins (Plex, sabnzbd and MineOS), since those require the most effort to reconfigure.
As far as i'm aware, these are my current options:
- Replication
Are these indeed my only 2 options or is there a better way to flip all the data to an external computer and then later re-import it?
Currently running FreeNAS-11.3-U2.1, in case that matters (i can upgrade if that makes things easier)
I'm looking to convert my current 2-disk mirror vdev into a 3-drive Raidz1 vdev. It's all 4TB drives.
I am aware that this will involve having to wipe the disks. I'm just wondering what the best way is to back up the data for easy importing after the fact.
I currently do have 2 2TB drives which i intend to use for the purpose of (temporarily) backing up whatever data is currently on the NAS, however i can't fit those into the system directly due to a lack of sata ports. If needed i am able to set up a temporary second freenas system.
Main things i'd like to keep intact are my jails/plugins (Plex, sabnzbd and MineOS), since those require the most effort to reconfigure.
As far as i'm aware, these are my current options:
- Replication
- can I replicate to a windows machine?
- If not, can I replicate to a different type of vdev on another freenas machine? (on the same network)
- Manually copy off all the data via SMB shares, and copy it back- I'm assuming that doing this will completely destroy any setting up i have done to my jails
Are these indeed my only 2 options or is there a better way to flip all the data to an external computer and then later re-import it?
Currently running FreeNAS-11.3-U2.1, in case that matters (i can upgrade if that makes things easier)
Code:
root@freenas[~]# zpool status pool: NASPool1 state: ONLINE scan: scrub repaired 0 in 0 days 03:06:48 with 0 errors on Sun Jun 21 06:06:49 2020 config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM NASPool1 ONLINE 0 0 0 mirror-0 ONLINE 0 0 0 gptid/9fec342a-7be9-11ea-b8ed-a8a159154f7f ONLINE 0 0 0 gptid/9ff6f951-7be9-11ea-b8ed-a8a159154f7f ONLINE 0 0 0 errors: No known data errors pool: freenas-boot state: ONLINE scan: scrub repaired 0 in 0 days 00:01:21 with 0 errors on Sun Jul 19 03:46:21 2020 config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM freenas-boot ONLINE 0 0 0 mirror-0 ONLINE 0 0 0 da0p2 ONLINE 0 0 0 da1p2 ONLINE 0 0 0 errors: No known data errors