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Hi all!
I'm currently giving my NAS a much needed upgrade and I am now thinking about how I should backup my ZFS pool. I'm obviously not a Freenas veteran, so please feel free to point out if this idea is foolish altogether, just be gentle with it
Basically my plan was to get a single, large HDD, slap it into a hot swap bay, mount it and either copy my data or snapshot the pool.
Honestly I haven't got that far yet because I am, to my surprise, struggling with the initial step of mounting a drive for data transfer. I mount it via the GUI to a directory I created within mnt, but then in the shell I can't see any of the data on the mounted drive. Copying data to the location simply saves it to that directory on my boot drive, not the mounted drive.
Thanks in advance!
I'm currently giving my NAS a much needed upgrade and I am now thinking about how I should backup my ZFS pool. I'm obviously not a Freenas veteran, so please feel free to point out if this idea is foolish altogether, just be gentle with it
Basically my plan was to get a single, large HDD, slap it into a hot swap bay, mount it and either copy my data or snapshot the pool.
Honestly I haven't got that far yet because I am, to my surprise, struggling with the initial step of mounting a drive for data transfer. I mount it via the GUI to a directory I created within mnt, but then in the shell I can't see any of the data on the mounted drive. Copying data to the location simply saves it to that directory on my boot drive, not the mounted drive.
Thanks in advance!