My Synology ds112j nas which i used to share files between Freebsd, Linux and Mac osx just died on me
I have a 2 terabyte backup of the nas on an external drive which is formatted as Linux ext4 which is the filesystem used by the synology nas
So i need to copy the backup to an external usb drive formatted as zfs which i can then plug into a Freebsd machine
or Linux machine after installing zfsutils-linux, and hopefully on the mac using openzfsonosx
Does anyone have any tips on the best way to create a zfs formatted drive that will work on Freebsd and linux,
and for bonus nerd points mac osx as well
I have 2 old Macbook Airs from 2011 one running Freebsd and the other running ubuntu,
they are set up exactly the same and the only way to tell them apart at a glance is the wallpaper
But the problem is they only have two usb2 ports and one port supplies more power than the other,
the upshot is i cant plug in 2 usb drives at once to the same machine to copy the files from one drive to another,
because only one drive gets mounted
The plan is to plug in the backup of the nas which is formatted as ext4 into the ubuntu laptop,
and then plug in a usb drive into the Freebsd and format the drive as zfs
To sync the files from Linux to Freebsd i think syncthing would be the best method
Using syncthing on the Linux side i can select directories from the mounted ext4 nas backup drive,
and then on Freebsd select directories on the mounted zfs usb drive
I already have syncthing installed on both machines to sync files anyway
I have a 2 terabyte backup of the nas on an external drive which is formatted as Linux ext4 which is the filesystem used by the synology nas
So i need to copy the backup to an external usb drive formatted as zfs which i can then plug into a Freebsd machine
or Linux machine after installing zfsutils-linux, and hopefully on the mac using openzfsonosx
Does anyone have any tips on the best way to create a zfs formatted drive that will work on Freebsd and linux,
and for bonus nerd points mac osx as well
I have 2 old Macbook Airs from 2011 one running Freebsd and the other running ubuntu,
they are set up exactly the same and the only way to tell them apart at a glance is the wallpaper
But the problem is they only have two usb2 ports and one port supplies more power than the other,
the upshot is i cant plug in 2 usb drives at once to the same machine to copy the files from one drive to another,
because only one drive gets mounted
The plan is to plug in the backup of the nas which is formatted as ext4 into the ubuntu laptop,
and then plug in a usb drive into the Freebsd and format the drive as zfs
To sync the files from Linux to Freebsd i think syncthing would be the best method
Using syncthing on the Linux side i can select directories from the mounted ext4 nas backup drive,
and then on Freebsd select directories on the mounted zfs usb drive
I already have syncthing installed on both machines to sync files anyway