Moving all drives to FreeNAS

RadeonHDx

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So firstly, I'll have a build log coming with all of the updates of my rig over the last year including me finally finishing her off which is why I'v been absent from the forum for a few weeks.

Now onto my actual problem that I can't seem to figure out. I recently acquired an old Q6600 system from one of my sisters old school friends. It's not ideal as its a dell system with awkward mounting and motherboards etc all over the shop (meaning that I can't even change the cooler...). I am limited to having the same case which has exceptionally bad airflow and also means that I can't properly mount all of the drives and fans that I want to which may force my hand to actually make another case for it. However this is not the problem I have as it runs and runs just fine.

I have freeNAS running on this rig and it runs just fine, I installed it and used an old hard drive to test out what read and writes are like on it, they seem okay and are perfectly acceptable for what I want to use it for. The problem is that I can't figure out a way to move the data from an existing drive on my system into the NAS without losing any data.

I have tried the programs like the Acronis cloning software to try to clone the data from a drive I have over to the NAS with no success. If someone could give me some advice then it would help me hugely and hopefully allow me to get all of the noisiest parts out of my system.

Joe
 
Have you thought about throwing the files onto it overnight while you are examining your eyelids?

More info needed though...

How are the drives in FreeNAS setup? ZFS raid etc
 
Have you thought about throwing the files onto it overnight while you are examining your eyelids?

More info needed though...

How are the drives in FreeNAS setup? ZFS raid etc

I like that ^_^, but unfortunately I have already tried this and it seems to just keep either failing or its not copying the whole drive (ie. I select the drive and copy it, then I go to my NAS and paste and on a nearly full 500GB drive it will only copy 80GB?).

And as for how the drives are setup, I have 2 drives currently mounted as UFS because the system only has 3GB of ram and I don't have any spare laying around to upgrade to ZFS. I have a WD Blue 500GB drive and a 1TB seagate (which gets SMART warnings all the time) which I will use for the full backup of my whole system and the other drives.
I want to mount more drives as I need some more space still as I edit a bit now and will be getting much more heavily into it over the next year.

Thanks mate :).
 
Sorry if I am late to this discussion. I had a plan to create a server to hold movies, music etc and to have the files 'served' to several tvs, tablets, etc in my house.

I found lots of 'testimony' telling how great the system they built are. But when I looked into each of them, it looked like the hard drives are ALWAYS busy. e.g. to use FreeNAS, ZFS, etc the hard drives will die an early death. Yes, it will be 'easy' to recover by replacing each dead drive with a new drive, but the process of 'resilvering' also adds to an early death.

Anybody have a better idea? An OS and filesystem and processes that make for a good server system and does NOT kill hard drives by continuous activity?

Best regards, AraiBob
 
Sorry if I am late to this discussion. I had a plan to create a server to hold movies, music etc and to have the files 'served' to several tvs, tablets, etc in my house.

I found lots of 'testimony' telling how great the system they built are. But when I looked into each of them, it looked like the hard drives are ALWAYS busy. e.g. to use FreeNAS, ZFS, etc the hard drives will die an early death. Yes, it will be 'easy' to recover by replacing each dead drive with a new drive, but the process of 'resilvering' also adds to an early death.

Anybody have a better idea? An OS and filesystem and processes that make for a good server system and does NOT kill hard drives by continuous activity?

Best regards, AraiBob

Please create you own thread in the OS & Apps section, rather than hijacking someone else's, thank you.
 
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