Hello Friends, I’m running TrueNAS-SCALE-24.10.2 and still pretty new. I built two servers, a Primary and a Backup (Mirror) Both are the same equiptment. Everything was going well until I noticed the Primary was at 20% storage capacity and the the Backup was at 18% I had accidently choose Z1 whe…

Is RAIDZ1 on the backup server actually a problem given that it only holds a backup copy of your data? Couldn’t you just leave it? Since it is a backup, why not simply destroy the pool and recreate it as RAIDZ2 and then copy the data from your primary again? If you have unused disks on the b…

Hey Protopia, I had thought about that, the anal retentive part of me wanted both machines to be completely the same. Also, I liked the idea of having the extra security of 2 disks dying and still be able to recover. The main problem is time involved in data transfer. I’ve been having proble…

Move Z1 data to Z2 without reinstalling

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Move Z1 data to Z2 without reinstalling

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