Mike Bruns
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- Dec 9, 2015
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So I have a 5x6TB Z2 pool working well. It's currently about 40% full and just a few weeks old. However, I now have a 6th 6TB drive and I want to rebuild the pool to a 6x6TB Z2. Yes, I know I should have added the 6th before I built the pool, but hindsight is 20/20.
I have a similar but smaller server with 4 SATA ports, plus a hodge-podge of smaller 1TB and 2TB drives. After I copied the data from the small drives to my new server, I ran the burn-in scripts and while the smaller disks are 2-4 years old, I know they are solid. I eliminated any questionable disks that failed burn-in.
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Currently, my plan is to:
1) On my primary server move the data into 2TB and 1TB datasets, using standard unix 'mv" commands
2) Create mirrored volumes on my staging server
3) Snapshot & replicate the datasets to the mirrored volumes on the staging server in the 2TB and 1TB chunks
4) Repeat #3 until I have replicated the big pool to the mirrored drives. I'll be rebooting my staging server multiple times and I know FreeNAS will complain about missing disks as I swap-out the disk in the mirrored pairs.
5) Take a special (oh-s**t) backup of the real critical data to a 2TB external USB drive
6) Delete the volume on the primary server, and recreate with the all 6 drives.
7) Reverse the process to replicate the mirrored volumes to the new primary server.
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Is there anything else I'm missing or a way to more simply stage the data to add the 6th disk in my primary pool? I thought that zfs dataset replication would be simpler and quicker than rsync or other methods.
I have a similar but smaller server with 4 SATA ports, plus a hodge-podge of smaller 1TB and 2TB drives. After I copied the data from the small drives to my new server, I ran the burn-in scripts and while the smaller disks are 2-4 years old, I know they are solid. I eliminated any questionable disks that failed burn-in.
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Currently, my plan is to:
1) On my primary server move the data into 2TB and 1TB datasets, using standard unix 'mv" commands
2) Create mirrored volumes on my staging server
3) Snapshot & replicate the datasets to the mirrored volumes on the staging server in the 2TB and 1TB chunks
4) Repeat #3 until I have replicated the big pool to the mirrored drives. I'll be rebooting my staging server multiple times and I know FreeNAS will complain about missing disks as I swap-out the disk in the mirrored pairs.
5) Take a special (oh-s**t) backup of the real critical data to a 2TB external USB drive
6) Delete the volume on the primary server, and recreate with the all 6 drives.
7) Reverse the process to replicate the mirrored volumes to the new primary server.
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Is there anything else I'm missing or a way to more simply stage the data to add the 6th disk in my primary pool? I thought that zfs dataset replication would be simpler and quicker than rsync or other methods.
