zamana
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Hi everybody.
Well, after using a “deskserver” (I mean… a “desktop” computer hardware used as if it was a “server”) for almost 6 years, I recently bought what I considered a “super server” hardware:
Motherboard: Supermicro X11SSL-CF
CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1245-v5
Memory: 32GB (2x16) Crucial ECC
The old server was an Ubuntu 16.04 (it started as a 12.04 and was upgraded, version by version, along the years, with no issues), and my storage was ZFS (on Linux).
Before turn off my old server, to backup my data (almost 11TB) took me almost 3 days, with some interruptions between each copies, all of them to external USB 3.0 HDDs.
Then I installed Freenas on the new server. But after 3 days, with no interruptions, Freenas had only restored (or imported, as you say) 1.6TB of data from the ext4 filesystems of the external HDDs. Then I gave up and installed an Ubuntu 18.04, rebuild my ZFS pool and restored the data in less than 2 days.
I would like to give Freenas another chance, on the new server. So I would like to hear from more experienced users what do you suggest to make this new attempt and have my data restored in the least time as possible.
One idea (or at least the start of it): I still have my old “deskserver” where I can install a "temporary" FreeNas, and I still have some old internal HDDs where I can build another ZFS pool and then backup my current data (still the same 11TB). For example, I could sync my data from the current Ubuntu to the temporary Freenas along several days (I can wait this, as long as I can use my data), and then install FreeNas again in the new server and restore back, this time from the temporary Freenas on the "deskserver" to the final Freenas on the new server.
Do you think that this last restore would be... quick? Or at least faster than the ext4 import that never ends?
Do you have any other and possibly better idea?
Thanks in advance for any ideas.
Regards.
Well, after using a “deskserver” (I mean… a “desktop” computer hardware used as if it was a “server”) for almost 6 years, I recently bought what I considered a “super server” hardware:
Motherboard: Supermicro X11SSL-CF
CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1245-v5
Memory: 32GB (2x16) Crucial ECC
The old server was an Ubuntu 16.04 (it started as a 12.04 and was upgraded, version by version, along the years, with no issues), and my storage was ZFS (on Linux).
Before turn off my old server, to backup my data (almost 11TB) took me almost 3 days, with some interruptions between each copies, all of them to external USB 3.0 HDDs.
Then I installed Freenas on the new server. But after 3 days, with no interruptions, Freenas had only restored (or imported, as you say) 1.6TB of data from the ext4 filesystems of the external HDDs. Then I gave up and installed an Ubuntu 18.04, rebuild my ZFS pool and restored the data in less than 2 days.
I would like to give Freenas another chance, on the new server. So I would like to hear from more experienced users what do you suggest to make this new attempt and have my data restored in the least time as possible.
One idea (or at least the start of it): I still have my old “deskserver” where I can install a "temporary" FreeNas, and I still have some old internal HDDs where I can build another ZFS pool and then backup my current data (still the same 11TB). For example, I could sync my data from the current Ubuntu to the temporary Freenas along several days (I can wait this, as long as I can use my data), and then install FreeNas again in the new server and restore back, this time from the temporary Freenas on the "deskserver" to the final Freenas on the new server.
Do you think that this last restore would be... quick? Or at least faster than the ext4 import that never ends?
Do you have any other and possibly better idea?
Thanks in advance for any ideas.
Regards.