Long time lurker, first time poster. I've been Google'ing all day and have yet to come up with anything, maybe you folks can help me out.
So I've got an LSI 9211-8i (flashed to IT) in my FreeNAS box, connected to a Rackable SE3016. This Rackable unit houses 8x 3TB WD Reds and acts as my local 'archive' pool. All data here is then pushed to Crashplan using the plugin. What I'd like to do is bring this pool up once a week, scrub it, rsync over the data from my other pools (same box), push it to Crashplan and then turn the Rackable unit back off until next backup... all without bringing the whole NAS down.
How should I go about this? Do I have to export the pool and turn off the plugin every time I want to power off the unit? Then import the pool, turn on the plugin, do the backups, and repeat? Or do I really have to bring the whole box down just to turn off the unit and then bring the box back up (with the unit left off)? This 'archive' pool doesn't do anything that would require constant up-time and isn't accessible to any user other than root, who runs the rsync operation. And I realize that by not exporting the pool and booting with the unit turned off, FreeNAS will complain about the "missing" pool but it's not really a big deal because this pool isn't required for day-to-day operations. I just don't want to have to keep bringing FreeNAS down and up.
I've also tried connecting this Rackable unit to a FreeNAS guest on my ESXi box so that I could seperate the 'archive' pool/unit from my bare metal box and power up/down the unit as I powered up the VM. I have everything setup, but even with pass through, I quickly realized (via rsync operation from the pools on my bare metal box to the guest) that the performance of this setup was abysmal so that's out... unless anyone has any ideas on how to clear that up? If not then no worries because I'd much rather keep the whole operation on bare metal.
So I've got an LSI 9211-8i (flashed to IT) in my FreeNAS box, connected to a Rackable SE3016. This Rackable unit houses 8x 3TB WD Reds and acts as my local 'archive' pool. All data here is then pushed to Crashplan using the plugin. What I'd like to do is bring this pool up once a week, scrub it, rsync over the data from my other pools (same box), push it to Crashplan and then turn the Rackable unit back off until next backup... all without bringing the whole NAS down.
How should I go about this? Do I have to export the pool and turn off the plugin every time I want to power off the unit? Then import the pool, turn on the plugin, do the backups, and repeat? Or do I really have to bring the whole box down just to turn off the unit and then bring the box back up (with the unit left off)? This 'archive' pool doesn't do anything that would require constant up-time and isn't accessible to any user other than root, who runs the rsync operation. And I realize that by not exporting the pool and booting with the unit turned off, FreeNAS will complain about the "missing" pool but it's not really a big deal because this pool isn't required for day-to-day operations. I just don't want to have to keep bringing FreeNAS down and up.
I've also tried connecting this Rackable unit to a FreeNAS guest on my ESXi box so that I could seperate the 'archive' pool/unit from my bare metal box and power up/down the unit as I powered up the VM. I have everything setup, but even with pass through, I quickly realized (via rsync operation from the pools on my bare metal box to the guest) that the performance of this setup was abysmal so that's out... unless anyone has any ideas on how to clear that up? If not then no worries because I'd much rather keep the whole operation on bare metal.
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