Hi folks,
I set up a 4 x 500 GB mirrored volume for a total capacity of ~1 TB a while ago. I've quickly run out of drive space and have ordered 6 x 4 TB drives intended to be set up with RAIDZ2.
I've created a local replication task through the FreeNAS GUI and backed up the 1 TB volume to an external 2 TB USB drive. This worked nicely and I can see the backup volume and all the replicated contents on the USB drive.
My question is, when I remove the 4 x 500 GB disks and replace them with the new RAIDZ2 volume I intend to create, is there anything special I need to worry about or do? Is it as simple as setting up another replication task or doing a zfs send / receive? Any gotchas to watch out for?
I want to keep the jails and plugins I have configured and move them to the new RAIDZ2 system dataset. I intend to keep the existing mirrors USB sticks that I use to boot FreeNAS from. Just trying to figure out if I'm overlooking anything before I do this.
Thanks in advance for your help!
Regards,
Eric
I set up a 4 x 500 GB mirrored volume for a total capacity of ~1 TB a while ago. I've quickly run out of drive space and have ordered 6 x 4 TB drives intended to be set up with RAIDZ2.
I've created a local replication task through the FreeNAS GUI and backed up the 1 TB volume to an external 2 TB USB drive. This worked nicely and I can see the backup volume and all the replicated contents on the USB drive.
My question is, when I remove the 4 x 500 GB disks and replace them with the new RAIDZ2 volume I intend to create, is there anything special I need to worry about or do? Is it as simple as setting up another replication task or doing a zfs send / receive? Any gotchas to watch out for?
I want to keep the jails and plugins I have configured and move them to the new RAIDZ2 system dataset. I intend to keep the existing mirrors USB sticks that I use to boot FreeNAS from. Just trying to figure out if I'm overlooking anything before I do this.
Thanks in advance for your help!
Regards,
Eric