February 13, 20251 yr Hi all, I've been putting it off but I'm in need of upgrading my server's storage. My current setup is in my sig and as seen in the below screenshot. I've run out of SATA ports for more disks, so my plan was to use the secondary M2 connector with a controller to add more SATA drives from there. The issue here is that I'm currently using, as you can see, 2 NVME drives for the cache in a ZFS Raid0 pool (in unRAID 7 is shows Stripe now). This is the main thing I'm scared about. Basically I'm gonna purchase a new NVME drive (larger capacity) for the cache pool. The problem is how do I back this up? Can I literally just drag and drop the folder structure? So back it up to an external drive and then after adding the new NVME drive, create a new ZFS cache pool and just drop them back in? Below are my shares. Not using domains or isos. Also, what is the best recommended controller to use for the additional SATA drives? Many thanks!
February 13, 20251 yr 22 minutes ago, Sptz87 said: Can I literally just drag and drop the folder structure? It depends on what you have in the pool. 22 minutes ago, Sptz87 said: Also, what is the best recommended controller to use for the additional SATA drives?
February 13, 20251 yr Author 26 minutes ago, JorgeB said: It depends on what you have in the pool. Thank you for the recommendation thread! Regarding what I have in the pool I showed a screenshot. appdata, data (media files that usually all go into the array), system
February 13, 20251 yr 1 hour ago, Sptz87 said: Regarding what I have in the pool I showed a screenshot. appdata, data (media files that usually all go into the array), system That screenshot might not tell the whole story. Click Compute All button. If it hasn't shown the complete results after a few minutes refresh the page. Or you could just Attach Diagnostics to your NEXT post in this thread.
February 13, 20251 yr Author 22 minutes ago, trurl said: That screenshot might not tell the whole story. Click Compute All button. If it hasn't shown the complete results after a few minutes refresh the page. Or you could just Attach Diagnostics to your NEXT post in this thread. Attached diagnostics as well! awe-diagnostics-20250213-1515.zip
February 13, 20251 yr Looks like you have enough space on the array, and each of your shares are configured with Minimum Free, to allow you to https://docs.unraid.net/unraid-os/manual/storage-management/#moving-files-between-a-pool-and-the-array
February 13, 20251 yr Author 22 minutes ago, trurl said: Looks like you have enough space on the array, and each of your shares are configured with Minimum Free, to allow you to https://docs.unraid.net/unraid-os/manual/storage-management/#moving-files-between-a-pool-and-the-array I have an external HDD as well, which I could very well use. As I used that as an in-house backup on top of offsite backup. So I can just dump what's in the cache pool onto that and then copy it back onto the new pool? 22 minutes ago, trurl said: Disable Docker in Settings until you have everything upgraded as you intend. Makes sense! Thank you!
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