June 18Jun 18 hello,i am just about to replace some of my hardwaremainboardcpu I5 ->> I8ram gen3 32GB -> gen4 64GBpool 1x nvme -> 2x nvme gen 4 , 1x nvme sata IIIgpu internal intel , optional RTX 1060please post a step by step tutorial on how to do that without loosingthe config (users,shares,fileshares),the plugins and their config filesthe docker container and the docker app settingsthe cache/pool devicethe parity drives.before i begin, what to back up and where (like on an unassigned drive)cheers alX Edited June 18Jun 18 by ahab666 correction
June 18Jun 18 Community Expert 36 minutes ago, ahab666 said:pool 1x nvme -> 2x nvme gen 4 , 1x nvme sata IIICould you elaborate?
June 18Jun 18 Author hmmm, as I mentioned in the msg the transistion should be smooth, with minimum downtime ....shutdown, remove the mobo, put in the new onetansfer the pool devicetransfer the sata controller , disks are in the identical physical portsconnect to my networkreboot from my old USB stickatm i have my appdata dir,the system dir, and the docker img stored on my pool device ....thats it ....
June 18Jun 18 Community Expert 9 minutes ago, ahab666 said:disks are in the identical physical portsThis doesn't matter.What I was asking for more details about was the part I specifically quoted.1 hour ago, ahab666 said:pool 1x nvme -> 2x nvme gen 4 , 1x nvme sata IIIThis can be interpreted in many ways. Specify number of pools, number of devices in each pool, size of each device in each pool, for both the current and to be configuration.
June 19Jun 19 Author okay, at the moment i have one phyical nvme as my only pool device, the new board supports 3 physical nvme slots but depending on the usage of the onboard sata III ports and the optional GPU one of them degrades to sata III speeds ....my plan was/is to make one big pool device with slot 1 and 2 and transfer the slow usb boot stick to the third one ....without an additional GPU it might still get 2 or even 4 PCIe lanes.my pool device is only used to house the docker.img and the appdata and sys* dir and of course as a network write buffer ;)hope that helps ... cheers alX
June 19Jun 19 Author now 1 TB, then 2 x 2 TB and one smaller one if sata III only speed ...the sata only speed might also occur if I populate all ram slots with 4x16 GBfor my data drives ... they are mainly media files video/audio for local streaming and some plugins amd docker apps for keeping the server alive and well.cheers and thx for your patience - alX Edited June 19Jun 19 by ahab666
June 19Jun 19 Community Expert Do you plan to have 2x2TB mirror? What filesystem is on the existing 1TB?
June 20Jun 20 Author 1 tb btrfs -----> 1x 4tb made of 2x2 tb nvme stripsthe 3rd nvme slot might just be an option for transfering or mirroring the very slow usb boot thumb drive .... still need to find a cheap 128/256 nvme slot compatible ssdcheers ....
June 20Jun 20 Community Expert 2 hours ago, ahab666 said:1x 4tb made of 2x2 tbI would do a 2x2TB mirror2 hours ago, ahab666 said:3rd nvme slot might just be an option for transfering or mirroring the very slow usb boot thumb drivePartition 16GB for internal boot, and the rest of the capacity for a pool, maybe even put your docker/VM related stuff there. You need to backup all that anyway regardless of mirrors or parity.
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