mjk79
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All,
Forgive me if this has been addressed before, but I wanted to post my specific situation because I haven't found the info I needed to make an informed decision.
My current set up is..
Intel Xeon E3-1241v3 3.5ghz
Noctua NH-U12s Cooler
Asrock C226M WS Micro ATX board
32gb Crucial DDR3 1600 ECC unbuffered Ram
Samsung 850 Evo 250gb (Caching only)
4x 6tb WD Red Drives
RM1000 PSU (overkill but I got it cheap)
Last week I got my hands on 2 additional Seagate 6tb enterprise class drives. I wanted to add these to my existing Raid Z2 array, but quickly found out that it's not possible to add disks to it.
So the end goal here is to add these two drives to expand my storage and I'd love some advice on the best way to do it. If someone knows a way to do this without having to nuke my current volume, I'd love to hear it!
From what I've read on these forums, it looks like i'll have to backup my volume, destroy it, and recreate it with the new raid array. Here are the options I'm aware of.
1. Replication to a new FreeNas. This might not be possible. I'm in the middle of building a new server that was intended to run Ubuntu and act as a NVR for some video cameras. I've tried re-purposing it to create a backup FreeNas, but yet to get the freenas install to boot properly. Possibly because the hardware is pretty new on the H170 chipset and a skylake cpu. This box was never intended to be a long term freenas.
If by some miracle I can get it working, I'm not 100% clear on how replication would work from a restore standpoint. If it backs up my volume, jails and all configurations that I could just restore? That would be ideal, however I'm not clear on if this is the case.
2. Rsync. Ubuntu can run an Rsync server so that's one way I could backup my volume, but similarly to above, I'm not sure if i'd just be backing up my raw data, or my volume configuration/Jails/Settings, etc?
3. Network Transfer. I'd like to avoid this if possible. I'd be backing up my data but lose all my settings and jails would need to be set up again.
If I'm completely off-base on any of this, or if anyone has a better way to accomplish adding these drives, please let me know. I could use some expert advice.
Forgive me if this has been addressed before, but I wanted to post my specific situation because I haven't found the info I needed to make an informed decision.
My current set up is..
Intel Xeon E3-1241v3 3.5ghz
Noctua NH-U12s Cooler
Asrock C226M WS Micro ATX board
32gb Crucial DDR3 1600 ECC unbuffered Ram
Samsung 850 Evo 250gb (Caching only)
4x 6tb WD Red Drives
RM1000 PSU (overkill but I got it cheap)
Last week I got my hands on 2 additional Seagate 6tb enterprise class drives. I wanted to add these to my existing Raid Z2 array, but quickly found out that it's not possible to add disks to it.
So the end goal here is to add these two drives to expand my storage and I'd love some advice on the best way to do it. If someone knows a way to do this without having to nuke my current volume, I'd love to hear it!
From what I've read on these forums, it looks like i'll have to backup my volume, destroy it, and recreate it with the new raid array. Here are the options I'm aware of.
1. Replication to a new FreeNas. This might not be possible. I'm in the middle of building a new server that was intended to run Ubuntu and act as a NVR for some video cameras. I've tried re-purposing it to create a backup FreeNas, but yet to get the freenas install to boot properly. Possibly because the hardware is pretty new on the H170 chipset and a skylake cpu. This box was never intended to be a long term freenas.
If by some miracle I can get it working, I'm not 100% clear on how replication would work from a restore standpoint. If it backs up my volume, jails and all configurations that I could just restore? That would be ideal, however I'm not clear on if this is the case.
2. Rsync. Ubuntu can run an Rsync server so that's one way I could backup my volume, but similarly to above, I'm not sure if i'd just be backing up my raw data, or my volume configuration/Jails/Settings, etc?
3. Network Transfer. I'd like to avoid this if possible. I'd be backing up my data but lose all my settings and jails would need to be set up again.
If I'm completely off-base on any of this, or if anyone has a better way to accomplish adding these drives, please let me know. I could use some expert advice.