moving to a new server

[hescominsoon]

I ahve my current srver(noted below) which is a 4 x 3tb pool using 3.5" drives. I am building a new mahcine that is going to be using 2.5" drives. What is the best way to move everything from the first machine to the second?

 

[Basil Hendroff]

What is the best way to move everything from the first machine to the second?

That's a bit of a loaded question. More information is needed for a considered response from forum members e.g.

1. Are you decommissioning the current server?
2. What are your boot drives?
3. What's running on the current server, plugins, jails, VMs. etc?
4. Will the new server accommodate (temporarily) the current pool as well as the new pool?

 

[hescominsoon]

That's a bit of a loaded question. More information is needed for a considered response from forum members e.g.

1. Are you decommissioning the current server?
2. What are your boot drives?
3. What's running on the current server, plugins, jails, VMs. etc?
4. Will the new server accommodate (temporarily) the current pool as well as the new pool?

1. yes
2. USB on old server 2x250 ssd on new server
3. nothing..no jails, vm's, plugins. It's smb shares and iscsi connections. I can easily rebuild those shares manually that is not a concern.
4. no. I am starting from ground zero on server 2.

I am curious would replication over the network achieve my goal?

 

[Basil Hendroff]

I am curious would replication over the network achieve my goal?

I would have thought local replication is the way to go. From your signature block, it appears you already have some familiarity with replication. While I've not tested replication under 11.3 (I'm aware there were some issues that may have been addressed in 11.3-U1, refer to this thread), if it works, consider using the SSH+NETCAT transport option (for higher transfer speeds) when setting up the replication task. I would love to hear back from your experience if you adopt this approach.

 

[hescominsoon]

so replication bugs not withstanding replication would effectively copy the pool from old server to new server...and then i should be able to drop it into place of the old one...:)

 

[Basil Hendroff]

In principle, it should work. Once you've tested that all your data has come across, all that remains is to import the config from the current server (shutting down the current server of course), which should carry across your accounts and SMB shares and other configuration details.