TheKiwi
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- Dec 27, 2015
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Right now I have a bit under 3TB of data on what I call my pile of random drives. I have built an awesome new FreeNAS server and [edit: want to] make a 6 drive RAIDZ2 using a brand new set of 6 3TB HDDs. But I can't afford all the new HDDs for a while, and I want to actually use my new FreeNAS server now. I have two of the brand new 3TB hard drives. So here's my plan.
- Make a ZFS mirror using two of my new 3TB drives.
- Move data to the mirror from my pile of random drives.
- Wait until I get the rest of the drives.
- Move the data from the mirror [back] to my pile of random drives.
- Wipe the mirror.
- Build the proper Z2 array with all 6 new drives.
- Move the data back to the final Z2
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