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Recovering from a Backup

As part of my moving data and hard drives around between servers, I have reached a situation where I need to move data off of my primary storage server, destroy the array, and restore my data. Incidentally, this is basically simulating what I will do in the event my storage server or ZFS array fails. I’ll document the process here to serve as a reference f..

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Configuring TrueNAS

I previously talked about my physical storage server build and choice of TrueNAS SCALE as an operating system. I did configure a single storage pool and copy my data over since then to experiment with settings and see how things work. I had enough spare drives so I was able to do this without touching my Unraid server which made for an easier and less str..

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