Disk Cloning

Duplicating a zpool

Leave a Comment / DELL, Disk Cloning, Disks, FreeBSD, hardware, Open Source, R720, ZFS / By Dan Langille / October 13, 2020

I have these boot drives, I want to copy them to another. They both happen to be zroot and bootable. I booted from mfsBSD and imported both new and old zroot, using the pool ID shown by zpool import -N. root@mfsbsd:~ # zpool import -N pool: data01 id: 2668514456528412656 state: ONLINE action: The pool can […]

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Replacing both drives in a zpool mirror

Leave a Comment / Disk Cloning, Disks, hardware, ZFS / By Dan Langille / July 22, 2019

As previously mentioned, zuul has new drives. It is now time to replace the existing drives with the new drives. I will do this one at a time. Replace. Wait for resilver. At no time will the mirror be degraded (as would be the case if we removed a drive and mirrored). In this approach,

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