Hello everyone,
I am not planning to migrate to TrueNAS SCALE as my whole environment (desktops, servers and laptops) run FreeBSD, with the sole exception of my web browsing laptop, that is a corebooted QubesOS laptop.
The current setup is 2 servers with 8 disks each, in RAIDZ2, a solid setup I have on FreeNAS/TrueNAS for 10+ years. The active server zfs sends/receives to the backup server and the whole setup is on jails, except my email server that is on mailcow, with an active bhyve VM in one server, using the built-in replication script from mailcow to replicate to the standby VM running on the second server. The whole setup is backed up to Amazon Glacier (still haven't had the cash to get a server up at one of my friend's).
I have decided to start migrating to pure FreeBSD, so I nuked the standby server and started by trying to migrate the standby mailcow bhyve VM. So with the server fresh, I zfs send/received the dataset of my standby VM to the FreeBSD setup, loaded the key and spent 4 hours trying to get the VM to start, to no avail (bhyve error messages are really not that detailed).
So I thought safer to ask for some advice. I am currently on a single TrueNAS CORE box and I would like to migrate the setup to two FreeNAS boxes with HAST. I won't fight too much migrating bhyve, so I can just build a new VM for the email server.
My initial plan is to:
1. zfs send | receive all the data from CORE to the pure freebsd box.
2. Stop services.
3. Resend.
4. load keys.
5. Recreate my jails and the VM in the freebsd, so I have the services back online.
6. Get the new box to be responsible for Amazon Glacier backups.
7. With everything running fine, nuke the TrueNAS CORE installation, install freebsd.
8. Load keys back (all data should be there).
My question is... in this plan, when would I set HAST to minimize data transfers and reduce data loss risk (I'd hate to restore from glacier)? Should I just instead nuke the CORE box, do a fresh install, load keys? Any tips? Or is my plan awful? =)
After everything is running, I have 5 dell r220ii that I will add to my home rack so the storage boxes will do only that and run no services.
Thanks in advance!
I am not planning to migrate to TrueNAS SCALE as my whole environment (desktops, servers and laptops) run FreeBSD, with the sole exception of my web browsing laptop, that is a corebooted QubesOS laptop.
The current setup is 2 servers with 8 disks each, in RAIDZ2, a solid setup I have on FreeNAS/TrueNAS for 10+ years. The active server zfs sends/receives to the backup server and the whole setup is on jails, except my email server that is on mailcow, with an active bhyve VM in one server, using the built-in replication script from mailcow to replicate to the standby VM running on the second server. The whole setup is backed up to Amazon Glacier (still haven't had the cash to get a server up at one of my friend's).
I have decided to start migrating to pure FreeBSD, so I nuked the standby server and started by trying to migrate the standby mailcow bhyve VM. So with the server fresh, I zfs send/received the dataset of my standby VM to the FreeBSD setup, loaded the key and spent 4 hours trying to get the VM to start, to no avail (bhyve error messages are really not that detailed).
So I thought safer to ask for some advice. I am currently on a single TrueNAS CORE box and I would like to migrate the setup to two FreeNAS boxes with HAST. I won't fight too much migrating bhyve, so I can just build a new VM for the email server.
My initial plan is to:
1. zfs send | receive all the data from CORE to the pure freebsd box.
2. Stop services.
3. Resend.
4. load keys.
5. Recreate my jails and the VM in the freebsd, so I have the services back online.
6. Get the new box to be responsible for Amazon Glacier backups.
7. With everything running fine, nuke the TrueNAS CORE installation, install freebsd.
8. Load keys back (all data should be there).
My question is... in this plan, when would I set HAST to minimize data transfers and reduce data loss risk (I'd hate to restore from glacier)? Should I just instead nuke the CORE box, do a fresh install, load keys? Any tips? Or is my plan awful? =)
After everything is running, I have 5 dell r220ii that I will add to my home rack so the storage boxes will do only that and run no services.
Thanks in advance!