I’ve been using truenas scale for a year or so and following the YouTube channel pretty much since day one but I still consider myself a newbie, so sorry in advance if I misuse a term.
This is the second time I want to move everything to a new pool, the first time I did everything manually but I’m hoping there’s a better way to do it.
I upgraded yesterday to 25.04 with no issues and now I want to create a new pool, move everything from the old pool and delete this other one to repurpose the drives.
I briefly looked online but it seems zfs snd/rec won’t work for me because I don’t have snapshots enabled. Rsync should work to copy the data, but ideally I would like the datasets to be created as well. What’s the best way to do it?
Give details on your system and your pools. Are you just hosting NAS data or do you have apps and VMs?
It may be as simple as creating a snapshot and doing zfs send/rec.
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I have Truenas virtualized on Proxmox, with pcie pass-through for the drives, but no apps or vms inside just the pool with the data.
Forgot to mention that the pools are different, the one where I have the data is a raidz1 with 4 drives and the one I want to create is going to be a mirror with a special vdev mirror.
Can I create a snapshot if I intend to delete the original pool afterwards? I understood snapshots as blocks of data you can reference afterwards.
Thanks
but I still consider myself a newbie, so sorry in advance if I misuse a term.