Todd Nine
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- Joined
- Nov 16, 2013
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Hi guys,
I've been evaluating FreeNas in a striped/JBOD configuration with a few external USB drives I had laying around. They were connected to an old MBP and used for network time machine backups, so I'm not currently at any greater risk than I was previously for data loss. I really like FreeNas, and I'm now going to invest in 4 x 3TB drives. My current setup is the following
/mnt/origdisk => Striped-> Old Internal Desktop 500G HD, external 1T USB, external 500G drive
I'm going to migrate to this (initially)
/mnt/newraid => RAIDZ1 -> 3 x 3TB drives
I then want to migrate all the data from the /mnt/origdisk mount point to the /mnt/newraid, then remove the /mnt/origdisk mount point, and mount /mnt/newraid as /mnt/origdisk. This means I won't have to redefine all of my configurations (I think) and everything will "just work". After the migration is complete and working, I'll remove the old hard drive that's in the striped volume, and put in the last 3TB drive and expand the new RAIDZ1 volume.
First, is this a feasible migration plan?
Second, are there any tools/functionality in the UI that will help with this? If not, I'm fine with using the shell. I'm a software engineer that works on distributed systems that run on *nix, so I'm comfortable with ssh and the shell.
Any insight/guidance is much appreciated!
Thanks,
Todd
I've been evaluating FreeNas in a striped/JBOD configuration with a few external USB drives I had laying around. They were connected to an old MBP and used for network time machine backups, so I'm not currently at any greater risk than I was previously for data loss. I really like FreeNas, and I'm now going to invest in 4 x 3TB drives. My current setup is the following
/mnt/origdisk => Striped-> Old Internal Desktop 500G HD, external 1T USB, external 500G drive
I'm going to migrate to this (initially)
/mnt/newraid => RAIDZ1 -> 3 x 3TB drives
I then want to migrate all the data from the /mnt/origdisk mount point to the /mnt/newraid, then remove the /mnt/origdisk mount point, and mount /mnt/newraid as /mnt/origdisk. This means I won't have to redefine all of my configurations (I think) and everything will "just work". After the migration is complete and working, I'll remove the old hard drive that's in the striped volume, and put in the last 3TB drive and expand the new RAIDZ1 volume.
First, is this a feasible migration plan?
Second, are there any tools/functionality in the UI that will help with this? If not, I'm fine with using the shell. I'm a software engineer that works on distributed systems that run on *nix, so I'm comfortable with ssh and the shell.
Any insight/guidance is much appreciated!
Thanks,
Todd