garrei
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- Jun 7, 2019
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So yeah I'm a newbie to freenas and zfs and all that, next to no CLI experience so if this ould be solved without the use of that, would be amazing aha.
My setup at the moment:
HDD0 - SSD boot drive
HDD1 - 8TB Ironwolf | MIRROR1
HDD2 - 8TB Ironwolf | MIRROR1
HDD3 - 16TB Ironwolf Pro | MIRROR2
HDD4 - 16TB Ironwolf Pro | MIRROR2
My aim is to break these mirrors and keep my pools intact. As I no longer wish to have reduncancy for these drives. Not only this I need data moved from the 8tb drives over to the 16tb drives as I wish to use the 2 x 8TB drives for a different project. So essentially:
1. Remove the Mirror for MIRROR2
2. Wipe HDD4
3. Use HDD4 to extend the existing pool consisting of HDD3
4. Transfer files from MIRROR1 to free'd up space on the 16TB drives
5. Remove the Mirror for MIRROR1
6. Wipe data from both 8TB drives
7. Create new extended pool with both 8TB's
Hopefully my process I need done can be understood from that aha.
I'm asking for help in exactly how I'd go about this, can it be done? Will I HAVE to lose data? (I dont have any other drives to backup data) It's not critical data but it's a lot of hard to find movies and TV shows for a popular plex server I run. Would rather not have to re-download terabytes of data to get back to how it was...
Any help is appreiated, thanks!
My setup at the moment:
HDD0 - SSD boot drive
HDD1 - 8TB Ironwolf | MIRROR1
HDD2 - 8TB Ironwolf | MIRROR1
HDD3 - 16TB Ironwolf Pro | MIRROR2
HDD4 - 16TB Ironwolf Pro | MIRROR2
My aim is to break these mirrors and keep my pools intact. As I no longer wish to have reduncancy for these drives. Not only this I need data moved from the 8tb drives over to the 16tb drives as I wish to use the 2 x 8TB drives for a different project. So essentially:
1. Remove the Mirror for MIRROR2
2. Wipe HDD4
3. Use HDD4 to extend the existing pool consisting of HDD3
4. Transfer files from MIRROR1 to free'd up space on the 16TB drives
5. Remove the Mirror for MIRROR1
6. Wipe data from both 8TB drives
7. Create new extended pool with both 8TB's
Hopefully my process I need done can be understood from that aha.
I'm asking for help in exactly how I'd go about this, can it be done? Will I HAVE to lose data? (I dont have any other drives to backup data) It's not critical data but it's a lot of hard to find movies and TV shows for a popular plex server I run. Would rather not have to re-download terabytes of data to get back to how it was...
Any help is appreiated, thanks!