I have a 2x2TB ZFS RAID mirror using ada0p2 and ada1p2. I want to move one disk to ada3p2 due to some of my motherboard channels supporting hot swap and others not.
My understanding is that this is a change in vdevs assigned to a zpool. I *think* I need to export the volume (don't mark for erase and don't delete shares related to this volume). Then power down, move either disk to ada3p2, power up and auto-import the pool. FreeNAS will automagically know how to bring in the pool, the data sets, map to the shares, etc. so it will look as if nothing ever happened other than the vdev # changing.
Before doing this I will do a complete backup of the system. I will add a single 2TB disk into its own pool and replicate my ZFS, checking the two check boxes for "recursive replicate..." and "initialize for once...". That will back up my entire ZFS mirror to this new disk.
Is there any reason I should upgrade before or after doing all of this (I'm on FreeNAS 8.0.3-RELEASE-p1-x64)?
Thanks, you guys are great,
Ray
Configuration:
FreeNAS-8.0.3-RELEASE-p1-x64 (9591)
M/B: ASUS AT5NM10T-I
2x2TB Mirror RAID using ZFS
4GB RAM
My understanding is that this is a change in vdevs assigned to a zpool. I *think* I need to export the volume (don't mark for erase and don't delete shares related to this volume). Then power down, move either disk to ada3p2, power up and auto-import the pool. FreeNAS will automagically know how to bring in the pool, the data sets, map to the shares, etc. so it will look as if nothing ever happened other than the vdev # changing.
Before doing this I will do a complete backup of the system. I will add a single 2TB disk into its own pool and replicate my ZFS, checking the two check boxes for "recursive replicate..." and "initialize for once...". That will back up my entire ZFS mirror to this new disk.
Is there any reason I should upgrade before or after doing all of this (I'm on FreeNAS 8.0.3-RELEASE-p1-x64)?
Thanks, you guys are great,
Ray
Configuration:
FreeNAS-8.0.3-RELEASE-p1-x64 (9591)
M/B: ASUS AT5NM10T-I
2x2TB Mirror RAID using ZFS
4GB RAM