Hi,
I've been using FreeNAS v8.02 for a few years (2011) in a school where my wife is the Principal. Other than the original set up I've had little or nothing to do with it since so wouldn't be very savvy. It has been running fine and there's no real issues. However, the kit is fairly basic (good enough for v8 though) and the fan on PSU has started to sound unhealthy. I could replace the fan or PSU of course, but it occurred to me that I could take the opportunity to bring the whole thing up to date with newer, better hardware that I have available and the latest version of FreeNAS. I was planning to install v11 fresh to a new box with new clean drives and the questions I have are:
1. What is the best way to get the data from the old (v8) UFS server to the new (v11) ZFS one? The size is not a lot (< 1 TB) and there are about 100 users, in 5 groups.
a. I've been looking at various places on the Interweb with some suggesting (I think!) that it might be possible to split the v8 mirror, put the drive into the new box and importing the v8 UFS volume onto what will be a v11 ZFS Pool.
b. Some suggestions were to use an external drive formatted in ZFS (though I'm not sure that would work with the v8 server (only has 4Gb RAM and doesn't meet the specs for ZFS/ later versions, I believe - the new server will).
I don't mind having only one server active at a time, I can do this over a weekend.
2. I could possibly put the new v11 server on the network and maybe get the v8 server to copy the data across but bearing in mind that this is ultimately intended to be a REPLACEMENT server, what is the best way to introduce the v11 box to the network? Ideally, I'd like to be able to avoid re-mapping the drives on all the devices that currently access the FreeNAS ('nasdrive'). I am expecting that this would mean that it would need to have the same IP and NetBios name (and so will be a problem). Would I be able to call it e.g. 'nasdrive2' and then rename it back
to the original/ current name ('nasdrive') when finished?
All help gratefully received. Thanks.
I've been using FreeNAS v8.02 for a few years (2011) in a school where my wife is the Principal. Other than the original set up I've had little or nothing to do with it since so wouldn't be very savvy. It has been running fine and there's no real issues. However, the kit is fairly basic (good enough for v8 though) and the fan on PSU has started to sound unhealthy. I could replace the fan or PSU of course, but it occurred to me that I could take the opportunity to bring the whole thing up to date with newer, better hardware that I have available and the latest version of FreeNAS. I was planning to install v11 fresh to a new box with new clean drives and the questions I have are:
1. What is the best way to get the data from the old (v8) UFS server to the new (v11) ZFS one? The size is not a lot (< 1 TB) and there are about 100 users, in 5 groups.
a. I've been looking at various places on the Interweb with some suggesting (I think!) that it might be possible to split the v8 mirror, put the drive into the new box and importing the v8 UFS volume onto what will be a v11 ZFS Pool.
b. Some suggestions were to use an external drive formatted in ZFS (though I'm not sure that would work with the v8 server (only has 4Gb RAM and doesn't meet the specs for ZFS/ later versions, I believe - the new server will).
I don't mind having only one server active at a time, I can do this over a weekend.
2. I could possibly put the new v11 server on the network and maybe get the v8 server to copy the data across but bearing in mind that this is ultimately intended to be a REPLACEMENT server, what is the best way to introduce the v11 box to the network? Ideally, I'd like to be able to avoid re-mapping the drives on all the devices that currently access the FreeNAS ('nasdrive'). I am expecting that this would mean that it would need to have the same IP and NetBios name (and so will be a problem). Would I be able to call it e.g. 'nasdrive2' and then rename it back
to the original/ current name ('nasdrive') when finished?
All help gratefully received. Thanks.
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