Hello All, I'm a new FreeNAS user and this is my first post.
Up to now I've been using a WD My Book 4TB external USB 3.0 drive, formatted NTFS, for backups. My goal has been to use the new FreeNAS Mini XL+ as my primary backup solution going forward. I created a dataset "wdmybook", connected the external drive to the front panel USB 3.0 port, and used the Import Disk feature to copy the backup files (~1.8 TB) to the newly created dataset.
I monitored the progress of the import over several hours, and estimated the completion time to be sometime around 3:00 AM. As you can see from this console output snippet it was pretty close:
But when I checked first thing this morning, the FreeNAS GUI was showing this pop-up message:
Aside from that I could find no evidence of any problems. I remounted the external drive, ran a 'du' on the new dataset and the external drive, and found a fairly large discrepancy (the ZFS dataset being about 25 percent smaller). Of course I wouldn't expect them to match, but I didn't expect them to be that far apart either.
The questions I now have are:
1) Is there a best way to verify the fidelity of the copy?
2) Is there a faster and/or better way to copy the external drive to the ZFS pool?
3) Any other general advice?
I did search both the Internet and the forum, but couldn't find the answers I was looking for.
Many thanks in advance for any and all help for this FreeNAS newbie.
Up to now I've been using a WD My Book 4TB external USB 3.0 drive, formatted NTFS, for backups. My goal has been to use the new FreeNAS Mini XL+ as my primary backup solution going forward. I created a dataset "wdmybook", connected the external drive to the front panel USB 3.0 port, and used the Import Disk feature to copy the backup files (~1.8 TB) to the newly created dataset.
I monitored the progress of the import over several hours, and estimated the completion time to be sometime around 3:00 AM. As you can see from this console output snippet it was pretty close:
Code:
Dec 24 15:46:13 freenas fuse-freebsd: version 0.4.4, FUSE ABI 7.8 Dec 24 15:46:14 freenas ntfs-3g[4315]: Version 2017.3.23 external FUSE 29 Dec 24 15:46:14 freenas ntfs-3g[4315]: Mounted /dev/da0s1 (Read-Only, label "My Book", NTFS 3.1) Dec 24 15:46:14 freenas ntfs-3g[4315]: Cmdline options: ro Dec 24 15:46:14 freenas ntfs-3g[4315]: Mount options: ro,allow_other,nonempty,relatime,fsname=/dev/da0s1 Dec 24 15:46:14 freenas ntfs-3g[4315]: Ownership and permissions disabled, configuration type 1 Dec 24 16:12:17 freenas smartd[3086]: Device: /dev/da0 [SAT], Temperature 42 Celsius reached critical limit of 40 Celsius (Min/Max 4 2!/42!) /***additional temperature warnings removed to save space***/ Dec 25 00:00:00 freenas syslog-ng[2402]: Configuration reload request received, reloading configuration; Dec 25 00:00:00 freenas syslog-ng[2402]: Configuration reload finished; /***additional temperature warnings removed to save space***/ Dec 25 02:56:07 freenas ntfs-3g[4315]: Unmounting /dev/da0s1 (My Book)
But when I checked first thing this morning, the FreeNAS GUI was showing this pop-up message:
Code:
Error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/middlewared/job.py", line 333, in run await self.future File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/middlewared/job.py", line 364, in __run_body rv = await self.method(*([self] + args)) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/middlewared/schema.py", line 664, in nf return await f(*args, **kwargs) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/middlewared/plugins/pool.py", line 488, in import_disk raise Exception("rsync failed with exit code %r" % rsync_proc.returncode) Exception: rsync failed with exit code 23
Aside from that I could find no evidence of any problems. I remounted the external drive, ran a 'du' on the new dataset and the external drive, and found a fairly large discrepancy (the ZFS dataset being about 25 percent smaller). Of course I wouldn't expect them to match, but I didn't expect them to be that far apart either.
The questions I now have are:
1) Is there a best way to verify the fidelity of the copy?
2) Is there a faster and/or better way to copy the external drive to the ZFS pool?
3) Any other general advice?
I did search both the Internet and the forum, but couldn't find the answers I was looking for.
Many thanks in advance for any and all help for this FreeNAS newbie.