Hi all, I've got a few questions...
I have an aging freenas server that has been up for ~2 years. I use it primarily as an NFS target for a few application servers.
It has only 2 disks in it... both are also aging. 2x 2TB disks in a stripe.
I just bought 4x 2TB drives to replace those two drives. The data on these drives isn't 100% mission critical but expanding to a ZFS1 pool with 4 disks should increase performance and give me a single disk failure without losing data, which is better than I have now.
I'd also like to install a fresh copy of Freenas to the server while I perform this upgrade (before or after the data migration). It's currently running 9.10 but I've managed to muck up the install as I was very naïve when I first installed it and went too much under the hood... (jails don't work, and many other issues, all my fault.)
My preliminary gameplan is to:
1. Install the new disks, build a new zfs1 pool with them.
2. Copy data over to new pool.
3. Remove old disks.
3. Install new copy of freenas, reimport new pool in place of old pool.
4. Reestablish NFS shares and such.
Do you foresee any issues with that plan? Any pointers/advice? Would that be best practice in this situation?
I have an aging freenas server that has been up for ~2 years. I use it primarily as an NFS target for a few application servers.
It has only 2 disks in it... both are also aging. 2x 2TB disks in a stripe.
I just bought 4x 2TB drives to replace those two drives. The data on these drives isn't 100% mission critical but expanding to a ZFS1 pool with 4 disks should increase performance and give me a single disk failure without losing data, which is better than I have now.
I'd also like to install a fresh copy of Freenas to the server while I perform this upgrade (before or after the data migration). It's currently running 9.10 but I've managed to muck up the install as I was very naïve when I first installed it and went too much under the hood... (jails don't work, and many other issues, all my fault.)
My preliminary gameplan is to:
1. Install the new disks, build a new zfs1 pool with them.
2. Copy data over to new pool.
3. Remove old disks.
3. Install new copy of freenas, reimport new pool in place of old pool.
4. Reestablish NFS shares and such.
Do you foresee any issues with that plan? Any pointers/advice? Would that be best practice in this situation?
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