Terry Wilson
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I am currently running 9.10.2-U2 on a box with 6 drives (z2) per vdev (single vdev) in a single zpool. I have built a new "monster" of a machine with the zpool consisting of 6 drives per vdev, 4 vdevs in a single zpool that we use to backup multiple customers. The old server is still actively receiving data from customers (they FTP files up to this box) and I can't stop this process for more than an hour or so. Yes, I am sure people will offer advice on the single zpool, ZFS choice, vdev's etc.. and thats welcome but not what I am asking about....
In this case since I can't quiet the old server could I use something like snapshots to move data from one zpool to another knowing that have different pool names, sizes, vdev's , etc.. and after all this copies over, quite the old server and run one more manual snapshot, backup the old server then power it off. Next power up the new server, restore the snapshot, then restore the backup (I think its called the freenas database located under System/General?)
Ideally I will want to backup the old config (users, UPS settings, FTP info,RSYNC Modules, etc...) and restore to the new machine as well so I don't have to setup all the users again, as well as the other settings that have been created over time.
Thanks in advance.....
Terry
In this case since I can't quiet the old server could I use something like snapshots to move data from one zpool to another knowing that have different pool names, sizes, vdev's , etc.. and after all this copies over, quite the old server and run one more manual snapshot, backup the old server then power it off. Next power up the new server, restore the snapshot, then restore the backup (I think its called the freenas database located under System/General?)
Ideally I will want to backup the old config (users, UPS settings, FTP info,RSYNC Modules, etc...) and restore to the new machine as well so I don't have to setup all the users again, as well as the other settings that have been created over time.
Thanks in advance.....
Terry