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I have:
I know that it would be relatively easy to simply replace the 1 toasted drive in Server A and re-build. I've done that before. However, I don't like the odd 1.5TB size of the drives and the server is mis-configured to the wrong ASHIFT. So, I have ordered 4 2TB WD Red Drives to replace the drives in Server A and re-configure it to the correct ASHIFT. Server B should have the files backed up from Server A as I have it running nightly replication of key folders.
Can someone point to or provide the steps I would need to take to get the data on my old drives over to the newly configured system with the new drives?
I could get into the old server files and copy them over to various machines on the network, set up the server with the new drives and copy the files back in. But, that doesn't seem very safe. I've transferred large amounts of files like that before only to find later that entire folders didn't go through somehow.
It seems like there must be a more elegant way to re-build from the replicated data on Server B. But, it's beyond my knowledge of FreeNAS.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Server A (Primary Server):
4 1.5TB WD Green Drives striped and mirrored (RAID10). 1 of those drives is toast.
Server B (Backups Only):
1 2TB HD.
I know that it would be relatively easy to simply replace the 1 toasted drive in Server A and re-build. I've done that before. However, I don't like the odd 1.5TB size of the drives and the server is mis-configured to the wrong ASHIFT. So, I have ordered 4 2TB WD Red Drives to replace the drives in Server A and re-configure it to the correct ASHIFT. Server B should have the files backed up from Server A as I have it running nightly replication of key folders.
Can someone point to or provide the steps I would need to take to get the data on my old drives over to the newly configured system with the new drives?
I could get into the old server files and copy them over to various machines on the network, set up the server with the new drives and copy the files back in. But, that doesn't seem very safe. I've transferred large amounts of files like that before only to find later that entire folders didn't go through somehow.
It seems like there must be a more elegant way to re-build from the replicated data on Server B. But, it's beyond my knowledge of FreeNAS.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!