SecCon
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So now I have the HBA card.
jeez... no excuses, just a bunch of reading up
I am nervous about doing all of the below, yes I still have all the files on my NAS and that is accessible, but it will take hours and days to get below done, then the file copy back which will take days, maybe a week... 11TB
... procrastinating...
jeez... no excuses, just a bunch of reading up
I am nervous about doing all of the below, yes I still have all the files on my NAS and that is accessible, but it will take hours and days to get below done, then the file copy back which will take days, maybe a week... 11TB
- Kill primary storage and delete all current raids
- Check the drives and clean them
- Kill the machine
- Open the machine
- Remove raid card and cabling
- Insert HBA card and connect cables
- Check that it works.
- Load up the truenas core iso
- Install truenas core (headless) on a pair of SSD drives using ZFS stripe or equivalent... hmm, the docs are not very clear on that, but I assume I just tick the drives I want to use...?
Ok. I need an answer to that. When I installed a FreeBSD based app for something else some time ago I could select two drives and used a ZFS Stripe on those two drives. What does TrueNAS Core do these days? Why is it not in the man pages....
- Network setup and such should be no biggie, pretty much default, just select the right NIC and so.
- Configure pools , at least two, make sure to select correct disks for each pool, one red one blue ( the drives have small coloured labels on the caddies ), red being the main storage... I see no improvements in that interface from freenas 11, still tiny, unguided, and a bit confusing.
- Configure smb and test
- Make a few tests with syncthing, seems to have an readable interface as opposed to rsync. New to me, I really hope it will work without scripts or cmds or general typing script stuff
- Copy back the whole shebang of 11TB data on a 1 GBit network connection and SMB speeds... about 100MBit/s..
- Did I mention pray...?
... procrastinating...