FreeNAS without RAID

[Monta]

Hello!

I have just installed FreeNAS and now I´m a little bit confused. I want to setup a simple sorage with backup, i don't need RAID.

What i have is 2x2TB HDD. One of them is for backup and the other one is for normal storage. How can i accomplish that? What should i use ZFS or UFS?

 

[Whattteva]

I would suggest using RAID1 for mirroring.
Anyways, you could probably create two volumes, one for each disk.
The choice of ZFS or UFS mainly boils down to how much RAM you have.
Generally, you'd want to go with ZFS if you have 8+ GB of RAM only, UFS otherwise.

 

[Monta]

I would suggest using RAID1 for mirroring.
Anyways, you could probably create two volumes, one for each disk.
The choice of ZFS or UFS mainly boils down to how much RAM you have.
Generally, you'd want to go with ZFS if you have 8+ GB of RAM only, UFS otherwise.

Ty, I have about 8+ of ram so i might go with ZFS, but is it possible to that without any RAID? Is there any backup future in FreeNAS that i can use on a single drive?

 

[pirateghost]

Ty, I have about 8+ of ram so i might go with ZFS, but is it possible to that without any RAID? Is there any backup future in FreeNAS that i can use on a single drive?

So you want a single drive as a backup location and a single drive for storage? I assume the backup is not the same data as on the storage drive?

If you are wanting to mirror the data from one drive to the other just set up a mirror array. If you want something else then set up 2 separate drives with single disks in each vdev

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus

 

[Monta]

So you want a single drive as a backup location and a single drive for storage? I assume the backup is not the same data as on the storage drive?

If you are wanting to mirror the data from one drive to the other just set up a mirror array. If you want something else then set up 2 separate drives with single disks in each vdev

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus

Its the same data. Is mirror array RAID1? becouse RAID is not backup

 

[pirateghost]

Its the same data. Is mirror array RAID1? becouse RAID is not backup

Neither is a single disk on the same system.

I don't understand the logic behind what you are asking.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus

 

[Monta]

Neither is a single disk on the same system.

I don't understand the logic behind what you are asking.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus

Okej let me clarify. I have 2 hard drives, lets call them A and B. Both hdd are 2 TB large. I want to use A as a normal storage and B as backup.
so in simple words A is where i store my data, and B is where the backup should be copied to. If A fails/dies i would find the data in B.

 

[pirateghost]

Okej let me clarify. I have 2 hard drives, lets call them A and B. Both hdd are 2 TB large. I want to use A as a normal storage and B as backup.
so in simple words A is where i store my data, and B is where the backup should be copied to. If A fails/dies i would find the data in B.

So what you are describing is pretty much how a raid 1 works without the need to configure a backup process....

Again, if your backup drive is in the same physical box as your data drive, it's not a backup... At that point you might as well go with a raid 1/mirror.

If your power supply goes and decides to take everything attached to it with it, then your backup drive is useless.

You can do it however you like. I don't understand why you would do it that way, but whatever.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus

 

[Whattteva]

So what you are describing is pretty much how a raid 1 works without the need to configure a backup process....

Again, if your backup drive is in the same physical box as your data drive, it's not a backup... At that point you might as well go with a raid 1/mirror.

If your power supply goes and decides to take everything attached to it with it, then your backup drive is useless.

You can do it however you like. I don't understand why you would do it that way, but Whattteva.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus

Fixed! Lol.

 

[sobsawats]

Just to share my config.
I have 2x2TB HDDs (1st and 2nd) setup as RAID1 (mirror) and have another 1x2TB HDD (3rd) setup as single drive in same machine (I own this machine/data and be able to physically reach it anytime).

I have autosnap for RAID1 drives every 30 mins/2 days and I also set a daily cron job to do Rsync from RAID1 to the 3rd HDD and also have autosnap (cannot remember frequency) .

With this setup, I believe that I have more double protection of my data (snap/mirror/backup) and be able to roll back my data up to 2 days.

 

[Vincent Jansen]

I would still like to know.
How do you configure Freenas without raid.

 

[danb35]

It's simple--you just don't set up a RAID array. Sorry if that sounds like a smart-ass answer, but it's really all there is. You'll set up one disk at a time as its own ZFS pool or UFS volume. Of course, this won't give you any protection for your data in the event of a drive failure, but if you're willing to accept that limitation, you can do it.