DaveB_6958
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Hi guys, I'm been watching the forum for long time but never posted.
Trying to be proactive on solving a potential issue with my ZFS pool.
I have a homebrew FreeNAS server which has been running for several years and has survived motherboard replacement and other minor catastrophes.
Current with all the releases of FreeNAS, now at 11.2
The server was first built with three 3 TB WD red drives in a raidz1-0 pool, over the years I've added additional drives one at a time to a point where now there are 6 identical drives. Unfortunately the 3 newest are not part of the raidz-0 pool, which is what I want to correct. My understanding is if any of the newest three drives were to fail the entire pool would be lost. (true?)
Here's the existing configuration:
I currently have about 9TB of data in large files (mostly movies)
What I think I need to do is back up the entire pool to a safe place, destroy the existing pool, reconfigure the drives and restore the data to the new pool.
So my question is how to do that, I have space for 2 more drives in my storage enclosure, so I could add 2 6TB drives at a cost of over $800 to back up to, or subscribe to a cloud storage service back up to it and restore from there using 150 Mb/ 10 Mb internet (slower but cheaper) or something else?
What would you do? Assuming I haven't won the lottery and need a solution that would be reliable.
Thank's in advance
-db-
Trying to be proactive on solving a potential issue with my ZFS pool.
I have a homebrew FreeNAS server which has been running for several years and has survived motherboard replacement and other minor catastrophes.
Current with all the releases of FreeNAS, now at 11.2
The server was first built with three 3 TB WD red drives in a raidz1-0 pool, over the years I've added additional drives one at a time to a point where now there are 6 identical drives. Unfortunately the 3 newest are not part of the raidz-0 pool, which is what I want to correct. My understanding is if any of the newest three drives were to fail the entire pool would be lost. (true?)
Here's the existing configuration:
Code:
NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM Pool ONLINE 0 0 0 raidz1-0 ONLINE 0 0 0 gptid/2f0850ed-879f-11e3-86a6-00012e31082b ONLINE 0 0 0 gptid/2f529b1d-879f-11e3-86a6-00012e31082b ONLINE 0 0 0 gptid/2ff23203-879f-11e3-86a6-00012e31082b ONLINE 0 0 0 gptid/f96b9943-49ab-11e4-a210-00012e31082b ONLINE 0 0 0 gptid/2bb8bb5a-43f8-11e8-85cb-00012e31082b ONLINE 0 0 0 gptid/88308c60-43f8-11e8-85cb-00012e31082b ONLINE 0 0 0
I currently have about 9TB of data in large files (mostly movies)
What I think I need to do is back up the entire pool to a safe place, destroy the existing pool, reconfigure the drives and restore the data to the new pool.
So my question is how to do that, I have space for 2 more drives in my storage enclosure, so I could add 2 6TB drives at a cost of over $800 to back up to, or subscribe to a cloud storage service back up to it and restore from there using 150 Mb/ 10 Mb internet (slower but cheaper) or something else?
What would you do? Assuming I haven't won the lottery and need a solution that would be reliable.
Thank's in advance
-db-
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