Sorry for the vague open question, but I'm driving myself mad tonight trying to figure out the best (safest/fastest) way to populate the empty 20TB ZFS Pool in a new TrueNAS Scale build. I think we are talking about 6-7TB of movies, photos, music. Each in folders specific to the type of media. Ideally, I would do something to sync each major folder.
I am definitely what you call a hobbyist.
~5 years ago, I built my 1st server on a Proxmox VE platform with a ZFS Pool following some tutorials at Level1. It was mostly over my head, but it came together after some struggles and I'm amazed at how well it has worked for the last 5 years considering my lack of linux experience. I can say without embarasment that I never really understood some aspects of what I put together. Because of its age I decided to upgrade. I also wanted to move to something simpler with better community support, so I chose FreeNAS Scale.
I can say that I am enjoying the setup process with TrueNAS Scale much more so far. I've got everything installed, tested (a week of badblocks and smartctl long tests with no errors). I've got my new Pool setup and SMB shares/file structures that should closely match my old server Pool. Most of it has been frustration free.
Now, how to move it? I know I could use my Windows PC to Copy/Paste everything using a combination of SMB shares and/or mounted drives.
I would prefer to keep the time stamps on everything the same though and I know sometimes Windows will put the current date on everything. (I like to sort music and movies by recently added).
I followed some videos on using rsync and setup modules in TrueNAS for each main folder. But what is next? I went to the old server which uses TurnKey File Server and I don't see any GUI features for rsync, so I'm not sure if any of that effort was worthwhile. I'm hesitant to jump into command line for that because I haven't found any recent tutorials. Also, I'm afraid that my TurnKey is running such an old version (still on Deb 8) that I might have issues with the rsync versions?
I've seen some mention of doing a ZFS replication, but most of those tutorials seem to be going from one TrueNAS to another. Furthermore, I don't want the entire pool copies. I want to leave behind my all the VM Storage that was on the pool.
Any guidance would be helpful. I'd prefer something that could be done with a GUI, but if command line is the best way, I can do that.
I am definitely what you call a hobbyist.
~5 years ago, I built my 1st server on a Proxmox VE platform with a ZFS Pool following some tutorials at Level1. It was mostly over my head, but it came together after some struggles and I'm amazed at how well it has worked for the last 5 years considering my lack of linux experience. I can say without embarasment that I never really understood some aspects of what I put together. Because of its age I decided to upgrade. I also wanted to move to something simpler with better community support, so I chose FreeNAS Scale.
I can say that I am enjoying the setup process with TrueNAS Scale much more so far. I've got everything installed, tested (a week of badblocks and smartctl long tests with no errors). I've got my new Pool setup and SMB shares/file structures that should closely match my old server Pool. Most of it has been frustration free.
Now, how to move it? I know I could use my Windows PC to Copy/Paste everything using a combination of SMB shares and/or mounted drives.
I would prefer to keep the time stamps on everything the same though and I know sometimes Windows will put the current date on everything. (I like to sort music and movies by recently added).
I followed some videos on using rsync and setup modules in TrueNAS for each main folder. But what is next? I went to the old server which uses TurnKey File Server and I don't see any GUI features for rsync, so I'm not sure if any of that effort was worthwhile. I'm hesitant to jump into command line for that because I haven't found any recent tutorials. Also, I'm afraid that my TurnKey is running such an old version (still on Deb 8) that I might have issues with the rsync versions?
I've seen some mention of doing a ZFS replication, but most of those tutorials seem to be going from one TrueNAS to another. Furthermore, I don't want the entire pool copies. I want to leave behind my all the VM Storage that was on the pool.
Any guidance would be helpful. I'd prefer something that could be done with a GUI, but if command line is the best way, I can do that.