Hi folks,
I'm planning to move my disks into a new FreeNAS server hardware over the next few days. I understand under normal circumstances this should be relativley painless (power down, move everything, power on, maybe reconfig network) however my situation has a couple of things that I can anticipate being a PITA.
1) My system pool is currently on drives that cannot make it across to the new system (due to being MSATA and the new board not having MSATA, in the new build this will be a pair of SSDs). In this case, will a good old 'backup and restore' onto the new system work in place of this? If not... what are my options? Can I move the system pool onto the data drives on the old system first, move the drives, then move it again to it's new home on the new system?
2) In the old server drives were attached direct to MB, in the new system they will be attached via an LSI HBA (in IT mode) is this likely to cause any issues? (I am assuming not due to GPTID addressing).
Thank you!
I'm planning to move my disks into a new FreeNAS server hardware over the next few days. I understand under normal circumstances this should be relativley painless (power down, move everything, power on, maybe reconfig network) however my situation has a couple of things that I can anticipate being a PITA.
1) My system pool is currently on drives that cannot make it across to the new system (due to being MSATA and the new board not having MSATA, in the new build this will be a pair of SSDs). In this case, will a good old 'backup and restore' onto the new system work in place of this? If not... what are my options? Can I move the system pool onto the data drives on the old system first, move the drives, then move it again to it's new home on the new system?
2) In the old server drives were attached direct to MB, in the new system they will be attached via an LSI HBA (in IT mode) is this likely to cause any issues? (I am assuming not due to GPTID addressing).
Thank you!
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