MurtaghsNAS
Dabbler
- Joined
- Jul 21, 2021
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I have been a home SCALE user since Angelfish beta. I have kept my system updated and have been generally happy. However, I catch myself dealing with odd things that just happen, usually in areas that have strong known evolution from early days such as NFS shares, root users, etc. I suspect it is just some compounded upgrade cruft from upgrading 5-6 times. So when I make my transition to Corbia, I want to start fresh. I want to wipe out the boot drive, any internal databases, etc, and eliminate any historical Scale artifacts. However, I would like to reintegrate my existing pools. I have been impressed with how resilient my pools have been through some "Don't try this at home, kids" adventures I have had, and I think I can start fresh with a new install of scale with just importing my pools and VMs. But I want to know the best practices to make sure I don't foul something up.
Here is my battle plan
1) gracefully shutdown and mothball my two VMs
2) gracefully disconnect my pools logically from Truenas.
3) Physically disconnect my pools drives to prevent install fails.
4) wipe out the boot drive containing the current Bluefish build. No hardware changes are planned.
5) Install the Corbia build onto the boot drive.
6) Physically reattach pool drives.
7) import the pools into Corbia.
8) recreate details like NFS shares, etc.
9) import my VMs from their pool drive and activate.
Questions:
1) First of all, is there anything blatantly wrong with the plan? I don't think I am doing anything challenging, but better to know now before I do something adverse.
2) Are there any best practices for mothballing the VMs? I am hoping I can just point Corbia to the files and they will reboot. However, I can survive a worse case where I have to rebuild these VMs. They are fairly minor.
3) Are there any best practices for gracefully exporting the pools from SCALE? I know they are capable of recovery after some rough handling, but If I use the export tools in the GUI I should be good, correct?
Thanks!
Here is my battle plan
1) gracefully shutdown and mothball my two VMs
2) gracefully disconnect my pools logically from Truenas.
3) Physically disconnect my pools drives to prevent install fails.
4) wipe out the boot drive containing the current Bluefish build. No hardware changes are planned.
5) Install the Corbia build onto the boot drive.
6) Physically reattach pool drives.
7) import the pools into Corbia.
8) recreate details like NFS shares, etc.
9) import my VMs from their pool drive and activate.
Questions:
1) First of all, is there anything blatantly wrong with the plan? I don't think I am doing anything challenging, but better to know now before I do something adverse.
2) Are there any best practices for mothballing the VMs? I am hoping I can just point Corbia to the files and they will reboot. However, I can survive a worse case where I have to rebuild these VMs. They are fairly minor.
3) Are there any best practices for gracefully exporting the pools from SCALE? I know they are capable of recovery after some rough handling, but If I use the export tools in the GUI I should be good, correct?
Thanks!
