Creating partitions?

[whslpein]

We are trying to use FreeNAS to back up data on another storage device and want to create exact replicas of partitions that are on that other device. I've had to look up how to do this and find that the only way to do so is via command line. Not a problem, except:

'gpart show' doesn't list ada0
'gpart destroy ada0' results in "invalid argument"
'diskinfo -v ada0' DOES show info on ada0. But I can't seem to do anything with ada0 via any other

So I move on to a different drive (there are four total data drives). When I run 'gpart destroy' against any of the other drives I get "device busy".

How do I partition the drives? I can't find any real info on how to do this and overcome the errors I'm getting

 

[garm]

Check your assumptions!!

we don’t do partitions for content in FreeNAS, or any system properly using ZFS btw.

what you are looking for is datasets

 

[whslpein]

Check your assumptions!!

we don’t do partitions for content in FreeNAS, or any system properly using ZFS btw.

what you are looking for is datasets

Thank you very much for the solution.

 

[Yorick]

Creating exact replicas of a partition is a function of backup software. Veeam is one option and works quite well.