NAPP-IT - Moving whole pool - DATAMOVER or no?

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NOTORIOUS VR

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Hi Gea,

wondering if I should consider using the datamover tool in napp-it for transferring all of my data from my existing pool to my new pool?

If yes can I just choose the pool (no specific folder/ZFS file system) or do I have to do it file system by file system?

Or is there a better way to deal with this?

I want to move all my data from the old drives to the new drives and then purpose the old drives into new vdevs.

Thanks
 

gea

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With the datamover menu, you can create a ruleset to copy/move data regularly with permissions intact (unlike rsync). For a simple move I would either use ZFS replication or most propably midnight commander at console (start it via mc)
 

NOTORIOUS VR

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Alright then, thank you for the info. I'll use mc via the console to make the simple move instead of the rule based datamover now that you've explained it.

Cheers!