First FreeNAS Build, some questions about PSU and tips whether doing right

[HoMS87]

So I setup everything and am playing around with the system now before I move my data on it. But I have a question. is there a proper way to move my date from the old NAS (Promise Smartstor NS4600) to my FreeNAS system?
I don't want to use my normal PC for it because it has no ECC RAM. What I would like to do is copy all data directly over network from my old NAS. Is this possible? I googled around a little bit but couldn't find somethink useful.

 

[artlessknave]

realistically, you can just use windows, particularly if the source doesn't have ECC, but if you want to be paranoid about it:

you can mount any cifs/nfs folder into a unix folder using standard unix commands and then rsync the files (rsync is MUCH nicer than cp, especially when interupted).
I don't 100% recall offhand the exact syntax, but something like:

Code:

(sudo) mount -t cifs //1.2.3.4/windowsshare /mnt/windowsshare -o username=somebody
(sudo) rsync (-a) /mnt/windowsshare /mnt/zfspool/whatever

(mount should ask for password; you can also use

Code:

 -o username=somebody,password=something 

I believe

I am not familiar with this promise smartstor at all, but if it has standard ssh access, you can also use rsync with ssh directly, something like:

Code:

rsync -avz -e "ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null" --progress /root/bigfile.txt username@198.211.117.129:/ 

I have trouble getting the rsync syntax right, as /folder and /folder/ and /folder/* have slightly different behavior, so if you do use rysnc make sure you get it to do that you want, instead of just copy-pasting my examples

 

[HoMS87]

Ok, thx. I'll try :)