hell0un1verse
Dabbler
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- Jun 14, 2016
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Hello FreeNAS community,
I am new to FreeNAS, this is my first post on the forum. I have just finished assembling the hardware and planning to build a 4TBx6 RAIDZ2 pool to store all my data, which are about 3-4TB now, sitting on a couple hard drives after the Synology unit failed a month ago. I read various forum posts, stickies and FreeNAS documentations, it looks like in order to fill the data into the newly created zpool, one would usually do import disk, but my understanding is it would copy everything on the disk into the pool, my question is what if I only want to copy certain folders? How should I import folders individually instead of whole disk, since I have other stuff on it that I don't want to save to the pool.
Also, after I create empty RAIDZ2 pool, I will create empty datasets before I import data, they are mainly going to be CIFS shares, the dataset names and structure will match the folder tree of the data. My question is when importing data into pool, can I import at the root directory and the sub-folders will naturally be copied into matching dataset or do I have to import at each folder level into corresponding dataset?
Thanks in advance!
I am new to FreeNAS, this is my first post on the forum. I have just finished assembling the hardware and planning to build a 4TBx6 RAIDZ2 pool to store all my data, which are about 3-4TB now, sitting on a couple hard drives after the Synology unit failed a month ago. I read various forum posts, stickies and FreeNAS documentations, it looks like in order to fill the data into the newly created zpool, one would usually do import disk, but my understanding is it would copy everything on the disk into the pool, my question is what if I only want to copy certain folders? How should I import folders individually instead of whole disk, since I have other stuff on it that I don't want to save to the pool.
Also, after I create empty RAIDZ2 pool, I will create empty datasets before I import data, they are mainly going to be CIFS shares, the dataset names and structure will match the folder tree of the data. My question is when importing data into pool, can I import at the root directory and the sub-folders will naturally be copied into matching dataset or do I have to import at each folder level into corresponding dataset?
Thanks in advance!