Clone system disk failure

[ferdlzink]

Hello,

i am relatively new to freebsd/freenas, so i am sorry when the answers to my questions actually should be clear.
I installed ~1 year ago a freenas system with 2 data ssd's and another ssd for virtual machines.

For the system drive i used an old hdd (320GB). But because i am afraid of that this old hdd will get a disk-fault i want to clone the whole system drive to a new samsung ssd (512GB). Because a friend of mine had bought for other reasons Acronis True Image 2019 i tried it with this software. At the clone process i selected that the partitions should not get resized, the size of the partitions on the new ssd should be exactly the same like the size of the partitions on the old hdd.

But when i try to boot from the new ssd, i get the following error message: "Bootloader to large".

How can i fix this issue?
Or is there a better way to make a clone of my system drive (hdd to ssd)?

 

[Redcoat]

Welcome to the forums!

Take a look at Section 6.3.1 on the documentation - https://www.ixsystems.com/documentation/freenas/11.2-U5/system.html#mirroring-the-os-device - which describes the procedure you are looking for.

 

[ferdlzink]

Hello,
thanks a lot! It's easier than i expected :)

I currently have a 320GB (~300GiB) system drive. But there is a few GB used. Is it possible to make a disk mirroring setup with an 128GB SSD?

 

[sretalla]

I currently have a 320GB (~300GiB) system drive. But there is a few GB used. Is it possible to make a disk mirroring setup with an 128GB SSD?

You can only mirror to a disk the same size or larger than the existing one.

You could instead back up your config, reinstall to the smaller drive (or even to both at the same time) and then mirror with the larger one (if that 's really what you want) then restore your config.