Mirrored to Raid z-1

[mpriney]

• Motherboard make and model: Alienware Aurora R3 0DF1G9 046MHW LGA 1155 P67
• CPU make and model: Intel 2600k
• RAM quantity: DDR3 24gb
• Hard drives
  • Quantity - 5+1 boot ssd
  • Model numbers - Seagate 1tb
  • RAID configuration- mirror
  • Boot drive- 256gb
• Hard disk controllers - SATA
• Network cards – RealTek Semiconductor RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC
• OS: TrueNAS-SCALE-23.10.1

New user, first post.

When first setting up TrueNAS scale i didn't know what i was doing so i setup 1 pool with 2 mirrored zvols.
To fix this

1. copy everything I care about (photos and videos) from the server to another machine on the network
2. delete the existing pool
3. setup a new pool with raid z1
4. reinstall and re-setup all my apps

Do i have that right, or is there a better solution?

 

[Davvo]

Generally it's advised to put the apps on a mirror pool. Besides that you can copy the files in many ways not just via network.

Also, do not use the word RAID with ZFS; and zvols are a different thing, you likely meant VDEVs.

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