Copy data from freenas to freenas

[skattrd]

Hi all,
I've been running a freenas box as my home media server for 18 months or so (raidz1). I just set it up following the tutorial and pretty much left it alone, apart from upgrading freenas a couple of times. I'm now about to outgrow the storage, so I am going to upgrade the box and discs, so for a short time I will have two freenas servers. I will be looking to copy about 5TB of data from the old freenas to the new one. Could anyone tell me a simple/quick/easy way of doing this.
I can follow simple instructions but knows virtually nothing about unix commands.
Would configuring rsync be worthwhile as it's a one time copy?
Both systems will be running FreeNAS-8.3.1

Thx
Chris

 

[William Grzybowski]

You can either use rsync or ZFS replication.

rsync should be easier to setup, I believe the docs cover this.

 

[pirateghost]

I use rsync for this. Leave an rsync job running for a couple of days and then kill the old box when you have everything migrated

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus

 

[skattrd]

Cheers guys. I am doing the data copy via Rsync.
I started the copy last night and it's going to take a few days. I just set up one job to copy the full dataset.

Is there any way I can see the progress of the rsync copy? I can see 400GB was copied overnight by the size of the data on the new drive, but would like to see overall progress, time left etc if possible.

 

[pirateghost]

you can add
--progress
to the rsync command

here are the parameters I use on most of my command line rsync jobs:
rsync -rvuAth --progress
recursive
verbose
update
preserve ACLs
preserve times
human-readable