ZFS Volume usage ?

[Marcel Jacques]

Hi all !
Let say I created a volume with 2 drives in mirror in FreeNAS.
Let say, I did a TimeMachine backup of my new MAC on it.
Is it possible to detach this volume and remove the 2 drives to put those aside for a while and reuse it to restore my Mac later ?

 

[nojohnny101]

Technically, yes. (EDIT: I should add you would have to plug them back into FreeNAS, you couldn't just attach them to the machine you wanted to restore)

May I ask why you are doing this though? Seems like in that case you should just purchase a USB HDD.

 

[Marcel Jacques]

Technically, yes.

May I ask why you are doing this though? Seems like in that case you should just purchase a USB HDD.

 

[Marcel Jacques]

Technically, yes. (EDIT: I should add you would have to plug them back into FreeNAS, you couldn't just attach them to the machine you wanted to restore)

May I ask why you are doing this though? Seems like in that case you should just purchase a USB HDD.

Technically, yes. (EDIT: I should add you would have to plug them back into FreeNAS, you couldn't just attach them to the machine you wanted to restore)

May I ask why you are doing this though? Seems like in that case you should just purchase a USB HDD.

I know I would have to plug those back to FreeNAS and it is ok for me. The 2 drives in FreeNAS would have been created in mirror to be on the safe side. A Usb drive is not safe alone. Then, I would like to know the procedure or the steps to detach or remove safely those 2 drives in mirror.

 

[danb35]

See Detach Volume under http://doc.freenas.org/9.10/storage.html#view-volumes.

 

[Marcel Jacques]

See Detach Volume under http://doc.freenas.org/9.10/storage.html#view-volumes.

I see that there is a share button, can I keep the share even if I detach the volume ?

 

[danb35]

Yes, you can, though you'll probably confuse the system if you try to connect to that share while the disks are disconnected.