RandomFactoid
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- May 11, 2021
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Hi,
purely from the curiosity of hobby'ism, I managed to pick up a Microserver Gen8 for a good price to replace my Rpi4+external USB drive.
The setup atm is as follows:
-Microserver Gen8 with Celeron 1610T (will upgrade to one of the Xeon E3's soon)
-12gb ram
-Running ESXi with Truenas Core VM
-1x 4TB WD Red (/dev/da1) with data in stripe pool called Red4
I now got another empty 4TB WD Red that I want to mirror my data to from Red4.
After doing some reading there seem to be several ways to do it and i'm a little confused. Some say to attach the new drive to my existing pool via shell by using zpool attach, some suggest creating a new pool via GUI and proceeding from there.
I haven't yet tried either of those as I'd like to get it right the first time. I suppose the best option would've been having both drives in from the beginning, however one of them had the data and I had no way to backup to be able to start off with 2 clean 4TB drives.
Thanks for your advice
purely from the curiosity of hobby'ism, I managed to pick up a Microserver Gen8 for a good price to replace my Rpi4+external USB drive.
The setup atm is as follows:
-Microserver Gen8 with Celeron 1610T (will upgrade to one of the Xeon E3's soon)
-12gb ram
-Running ESXi with Truenas Core VM
-1x 4TB WD Red (/dev/da1) with data in stripe pool called Red4
I now got another empty 4TB WD Red that I want to mirror my data to from Red4.
After doing some reading there seem to be several ways to do it and i'm a little confused. Some say to attach the new drive to my existing pool via shell by using zpool attach, some suggest creating a new pool via GUI and proceeding from there.
I haven't yet tried either of those as I'd like to get it right the first time. I suppose the best option would've been having both drives in from the beginning, however one of them had the data and I had no way to backup to be able to start off with 2 clean 4TB drives.
Thanks for your advice