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Red Squirrel

Red Squirrel

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Data still copying. This could be a while... I did the mistake of starting a 2nd copy since I also wanted to move a VM over but think that just dragged the entire transfer down, and I'm too far in to stop it now.

I'm seeing lot of files that reality is I could have deleted, like disk images from 2015, but what can I say, I'm a data hoarder. I keep everything, because you never know! Actually there is lot of stuff I did delete over the years, this upgrade was to prevent from having to delete further stuff. :p
 
Red Squirrel

Red Squirrel

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Still copying files lol.

Code: 
/dev/md0              5.4T  4.8T  329G  94% /volumes/raid1
/dev/md1              7.2T  6.5T  329G  96% /volumes/raid2
/dev/md3              7.2T  6.7T  202G  98% /volumes/raid3
/dev/md2               18T  5.2T   12T  31% /volumes/raid2temp

md2 needs to hit 6.5TB. I'm also copying all of md0 to it... but I'm starting to have second thoughts about that. I might just YOLO the raid upgrade without a full backup. I have other backups just not complete verbatim copy so if the raid dies it would suck rebuilding everything from backups.

I'll let it go anyway, all I really need to do is wait around even if it's a few days, not really in a hurry.
 
scorpmatt

scorpmatt

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Red Squirrel said:
Still copying files lol.

Code: 
/dev/md0              5.4T  4.8T  329G  94% /volumes/raid1
/dev/md1              7.2T  6.5T  329G  96% /volumes/raid2
/dev/md3              7.2T  6.7T  202G  98% /volumes/raid3
/dev/md2               18T  5.2T   12T  31% /volumes/raid2temp

md2 needs to hit 6.5TB. I'm also copying all of md0 to it... but I'm starting to have second thoughts about that. I might just YOLO the raid upgrade without a full backup. I have other backups just not complete verbatim copy so if the raid dies it would suck rebuilding everything from backups.

I'll let it go anyway, all I really need to do is wait around even if it's a few days, not really in a hurry.
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good luck
 
Red Squirrel

Red Squirrel

No Lifer
May 24, 2003
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Still copying lol...

Code: 
/dev/md0              5.4T  4.8T  329G  94% /volumes/raid1
/dev/md1              7.2T  6.2T  695G  91% /volumes/raid2
/dev/md3              7.2T  6.5T  337G  96% /volumes/raid3
/dev/md2               18T   13T  4.9T  72% /volumes/raid2temp

raid2temp is the new array and already 72% lol. It will replace raid2, but I'm also copying raid1 to it as a full backup, before I grow raid1. I normally wouldn't do this and just YOLO it but since I can, I figure why not. The regrow operation will involve 4 separate rebuilds so it's slightly risky. There might be a way to do 2 drives at a time since it's raid 10 but it's hard to tell what drive is mirrored and what is striped.
 
Red Squirrel

Red Squirrel

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And it's done!

Code: 
sent 6001347854709 bytes  received 18783457 bytes  109035467.30 bytes/sec
total size is 6000558624717  speedup is 1.00


Code: 
/dev/md0              5.4T  4.8T  329G  94% /volumes/raid1
/dev/md1              7.2T  6.2T  695G  91% /volumes/raid2
/dev/md3              7.2T  6.5T  337G  96% /volumes/raid3
/dev/md2               18T   14T  3.4T  81% /volumes/raid2temp


Now to swap the mount points and make this array the new raid2. Time to start growing raid1 now. I can do that live and start to spin the vms back up but least I have a full backup now. I think I will keep that backup even after this is done because, I have the space for it anyway.
 
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