Bulk transferring files

[Diekatzchen]

My 2.5TB hard drive is starting to make complaints over SMART. I'm replacing it with a 4TB. What is the best way to transfer the files, Ideally with some kind of progress indicator? I don't need a progress bar, but a "bytes transferred" would help immensely. And yes, I know to use screen. I'm on FreeNAS 9, but my plan is to upgrade to the latest FreeNAS first.

 

[garm]

A single drive pool is a bad idea, but you should be able to add the new drive as a mirror to the pool and the remove the old drive from the pool.

https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi....1-RELEASE+and+Ports&arch=default&format=html

 

[Diekatzchen]

Wouldn't that limit me to the size of the original pool? I also want to make it bigger because I'm using up most of the 2.5TB

 

[garm]

Once you remove the small drive you should have the full size of the larger drive given the pool has autoexpand=on set

Ps just make sure the resilver is complete before you remove the old drive

 

[Diekatzchen]

Is there any way to know how far along the resilvering process is? I can't stand long processes with no progress indication.

 

[SweetAndLow]

Status is in the gui or zpool status.

 

[garm]

Dunno if the pool status page will display a progress (never checked) but zpool status in the terminal will

 

[Diekatzchen]

Works for me. As long as it is't a mystery how far along it is.

 

[Diekatzchen]

So the first 26 percent went by pretty quickly, but it has slowed to a crawl. It's currently at 43.68% and gaining a couple percent a day, even though the volume reads as healthy. Looking at the display attached to the FreeNAS box, I'm getting a lot of "CAM status: Command timeout" errors. Also, the entire dataset with all my movies is empty. I can replace it, with some effort, but is there any way to revive it?

 

[SweetAndLow]

That's a disk failure. Either sata cable or disk. What didsk is giving you the errors?

 

[Diekatzchen]

ada2, the one that I'm replacing. Am I just going to have to wait for it to get past the damaged part and see what files I have left?

 

[SweetAndLow]

ada2, the one that I'm replacing. Am I just going to have to wait for it to get past the damaged part and see what files I have left?

Ehhh not really. Your data is probably corrupt or inaccessible because the drive is dying.

 

[garm]

Ya sounds like a broken pool. What is the output of zpool status? (In code tags please)

 

[Diekatzchen]

Code:

  pool: Data
 state: ONLINE
status: One or more devices is currently being resilvered.  The pool will
		continue to function, possibly in a degraded state.
action: Wait for the resilver to complete.
  scan: resilver in progress since Mon Jan 29 14:59:55 2018
		1.22T scanned at 6.94M/s, 1.10T issued at 3.30M/s, 2.48T total
		1.10T resilvered, 44.33% done, no estimated completion time
config:

		NAME											STATE	 READ WRITE CKSUM
		Data											ONLINE	   0	 0	 0
		  mirror-0									  ONLINE	   0	 0	 0
			gptid/6394b4c5-a1a9-11e3-baf0-e839352096e1  ONLINE	   0	 0	 0
			gptid/d8ae43ec-052e-11e8-bc91-e839352096e1  ONLINE	   0	 0	 0  (resilvering)

errors: No known data errors

 

[garm]

Don’t interrupt it, let it run.
But post the output of smart for the failing drive as well (in code blocks)

 

[danb35]

you should be able to add the new drive as a mirror to the pool and the remove the old drive from the pool.

I guess it's a little late to point this out (since OP's already done what you suggest), but a much simpler suggestion would be to simply replace the first disk with the second. No CLI work required that way.

 

[Diekatzchen]

I guess it's a little late to point this out (since OP's already done what you suggest), but a much simpler suggestion would be to simply replace the first disk with the second. No CLI work required that way.

Except that it's a single disk pool. I know that's a bad idea, but I don't keep anything valuable on there. Mostly just digital copies of all my dvds, so I can stream them over emby. That and anime music videos. If I can get emby to give me a list of everything I had on there I can replace it all in, like, a week tops.

I'll post the smart when I get home from work.

 

[tvsjr]

This is why everyone suggests doing a drive burn-in (badblocks, SMART tests, etc.) before trying to add a new drive into an array...

 

[danb35]

Except that it's a single disk pool.

And? You can still replace the disk. Power down the system, install the new drive, go to the GUI -> Storage -> click on your volume -> Volume Status -> click on your drive -> Replace -> pick the new drive.

 

[Diekatzchen]

And? You can still replace the disk. Power down the system, install the new drive, go to the GUI -> Storage -> click on your volume -> Volume Status -> click on your drive -> Replace -> pick the new drive.

Oh I get what you're saying. Yeah, that would have been easier. Oh well, next time.