Moving data from old server to new FreeNAS Mini

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Just bought myself a FreeNAS Mini and so far absolutely loving it! I currently have a server I need to migrate all my data from, it's a Debian Linux install with ZFS on Linux and 1 zpool.

I'm not sure of the best way to move my data from one machine to the other. There's ~ 3 TB or so of data to migrate. I built a dataset on the FreeNAS machine with windows type permissions (this will be the intended usage) and built the same user to match what is on the Debian box.

I originally thought rsync would be best, but I had issues with running it. I would see issues similar to this:

Code:

rsync: mkstemp "/mnt/FreeNAS-M1/STEPHENNET/.transcript.txt.nxFwKM" failed: Operation not permitted (1)

This is the command I was running on the Debian box:

Code:

rsync -av STEPHENNET/ sbrown@10.0.10.33:/mnt/FreeNAS-M1/STEPHENNET

Is there something else I should do instead? I'd rather not keep beating myself up as to why rsync won't work ;) What's also strange to note is that some of the files have random characters appended to the end of them?

 

[Robert Trevellyan]

If the ZFS versions and feature flags are a good enough match, you can take a snapshot on the Debian box and replicate it to the Mini.