What is the best practice for transferring to new drive and increase capacity? I set up my node and honestly I did not do enough research before I have a 1tb smr Drive and after research realize this is not best practice I have ordered a 20TB Drive and should be here tomorrow I would like to move t…

I was able to get it migrated and upgraded! thank you all for the advance help This is the guide I followed First Initialize and mount the new disk as follows Formatting and mounting your HDD Please do not reformat your HDD if it already contains the storage node’s data and you want only to mount…

you can use it with different size HDD? from 4tb to 14tb? I just need to resize partition after copy?

This is good information, thank you! :grinning:

best thing when move data, just do Copy and paste to new disk, it takes lot of time, but in process it will defragment your data, it will speed up your node work after.

Yes, but if you do it that way you’d have to keep your node offline while it copies.

Yes, but usualy you copy data to bigger HDD, better to hold it defragmented, at this point you will get 2 in 1, but litle bit longer.

It does not matter for how long it runs because your node stays online for the whole duration. Disk clone requires downtime. If you are cloning 10TB disk your node will have to be offline for about 15 hours. What’s the benefit? It’s like saying “I’m not using my dishwasher because it takes 2 hou…

[image] arrogantrabbit: If you are cloning 10TB disk your node will have to be offline for about 15 hours. This is still faster than the final rsync run which requires the node to be shut down. I guess you never did a node transfer… :wink:

If you are on Linux, use LVM, you can upgrade to new drives with little to no down time with pvmove

I’ve done a few and the final rsync never took 15 hours (they were 7TB nodes, though, so I guess larger ones might)

[image] pangolin: This is still faster than the final rsync This means you need to run more rsync passes before shutting down the node. Downtime shall be few minutes at most. [image] pangolin: I guess you never did a node transfer… Lol. Zfs: moving storagenode to another pool, fast, a…

Best Practice for Transferring Data To New Drive

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Alexey May 17, 2024, 6:18pm 32