Setup of dataset and transfer of data.

[Dirk]

I swear I've been reading and configuring for 2 days!

The Freenas server was brought on line yesterday, and thanks to some great guides I got a lot done.

This is going to be primarily a media server so I can retire the aging Dell Windows server 2008 box where the media is now. A previous post of mine resulted in a response of "just move the directory structure over" and I left it at that for the time. Structure on existing server (dataset/folders whatever you like) is

/Music
/Series
/movies.

What is on the freenas box is
/mnt/AllDrives And below that
/Jails
/media

My first question is do I want to continue with datasets in the fashion of
/mnt/Alldrives/media/music , movies, etc? or something else.

The idea of course is to keep things separated as they are now (folder, dataset, directory whateva). I've looked into SMB shares, but am not grasping if that will keep things separate. One of the base ideas is that plugins/jails would have a focal point outside of the jail.

Most importantly, Freenas and the 2008 server are on the same network, how to transfer the data?

As a side note, the main dataset is Z2. Buying 12TB of NAS drives to get 7TB sucks! But I suppose sleeping well at night knowing that having every piece of media ever produced that has the word "Star" in it is safe, is a good thing! :D

Thank you in advance for the input.

Captain Dirk

 

[dlavigne]

Did you find a solution for this?

 

[nojohnny101]

I think you have not gotten any responses because the way you are describing things is a bit muddled and thus makes it hard (at least for me) to understand exactly what you're asking.

My first question is do I want to continue with datasets in the fashion of
/mnt/Alldrives/media/music , movies, etc? or something else.

Sure? volume, vdevs, datasets, etc structures are all highly subjective and dependent on your intended usage and needs. It would seem from what I can gather that you have a fairly straight forward need of organizing your media (I'm assuming for plex). If you are asking what the best practice is for doing this, I would say there really is none. Stores it however it makes the most sense to you.

The jail storage is going to be linked to however you set it up. I wouldn't be scattering things all over the place personally but would keep it under the same dataset, such as:
media
/media/movies
/media/tv
/media/photos
.......

Most importantly, FreeNAS and the 2008 server are on the same network, how to transfer the data?

It seems a SMB share would be the best way to transfer data once you get your folder structure on the FreeNAS box nailed down.

Don't know if what I typed really helps you. If it doesn't, maybe clarify what you are asking. Good luck.

 

[depasseg]

Layout depends on you and your needs.

By having separate datasets, you can tailor settings like snapshot schedules and retention policies, replication schedules and quotas and data recover (cloned snapshots). Also IIRC, if you plan to share a dataset using SMB, sub-datasets don't get shared automatically when you configure the parent, so that's something to consider.