pcmofo
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After a bunch of advice and help from this forum I have discovered the issues with my 3.5-year-old FreeNAS box which is using consumer grade hardware, non-ecc memory, and consumer grade drives. (Turns out the non-ecc memory was causing checksum errors with bad writes to the drives and the drives themselves are reaching EOL)
Thankfully I have seen the light and have built a new Supermicro box, 64gb ECC memory, 2x 8-core xenon processors and 24-hot-swap-bays. I have spent the last two weeks doing burn-in and testing on the ram and processors etc. Everything is checking out great, I am getting 110mb/s transfer speed with a single drive in a test setup.
Later this week 6x 4tb WD Red Pro drives will be showing up to be setup in a new RAIDz2 (which I plan on testing as well) The goal is to migrate the data from the existing FreeNAS box to the new one. As far as I can tell I can either,
1) Setup the new server and rsync between both boxes
2) Setup the new server with the new RAIDz2 (6x4tb) and physically move the old RAIDz2(8x2tb) vdev to the new server, then rsync between them
Does anyone have a suggestion or guide I could follow for using rsync to migrate my data? I also have a plex jail that would be nice, but isn't critical to migrate.
It should be noted that I am discontinuing the use of my old server until I am ready to transfer the data as check sum errors and scrubs seem to be way to frequent.
Thankfully I have seen the light and have built a new Supermicro box, 64gb ECC memory, 2x 8-core xenon processors and 24-hot-swap-bays. I have spent the last two weeks doing burn-in and testing on the ram and processors etc. Everything is checking out great, I am getting 110mb/s transfer speed with a single drive in a test setup.
Later this week 6x 4tb WD Red Pro drives will be showing up to be setup in a new RAIDz2 (which I plan on testing as well) The goal is to migrate the data from the existing FreeNAS box to the new one. As far as I can tell I can either,
1) Setup the new server and rsync between both boxes
2) Setup the new server with the new RAIDz2 (6x4tb) and physically move the old RAIDz2(8x2tb) vdev to the new server, then rsync between them
Does anyone have a suggestion or guide I could follow for using rsync to migrate my data? I also have a plex jail that would be nice, but isn't critical to migrate.
It should be noted that I am discontinuing the use of my old server until I am ready to transfer the data as check sum errors and scrubs seem to be way to frequent.