Re: [gentoo-user] NAS and replacing with larger drives

[Mark Knecht]

On Sun, Dec 11, 2022 at 6:55 PM Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
>
> Dale wrote:
> >
> > Interesting info.  Since this is a duplicate copy already, I'm not to
> > worried about RAID stuff.  I'd rather have two separate backups myself.
> > Store them in different places for even more safety.  Still, one of
> > these days.  ;-)
> >
> > I'm still getting this error.
> >
> > root@fireball ~ # mkdir /mnt/Backup/Videos
> > mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/mnt/Backup/Videos’: Permission denied
> > root@fireball ~ #
> >
> > I've tried every permission in every place I can find.  I have a user
> > set up, set permissions under storage and pools, all the little
> > directory thingys under it too.  It mounts so I'd think I got everything
> > set up correctly in the Share section.  I actually followed a guide and
> > I don't think I missed anything.  Still, I can't write anything to the
> > thing.  It mounts fine, even shows it is mounted rw.  I can't find
> > anything wrong on the puter or NAS ends.  This reminds me of the last
> > time I played with BSD.  It works so different, it just throws a person
> > upside down and shakes them.
> >
> > I did switch to TrueNAS tho.  Thing is, I got the same result from both,
> > exact same error.  Can't be a bug.  It has to be me.  No idea what I
> > missed but I bet I did.  lol  Just gonna keep banging on it.  :-D  I do
> > like the GUI part.  That's pretty neat.
> >
> > Dale
> >
> > :-) :-)
> >
>
>
> Update.  I thought about just using Dolphin to play with the directory
> that's actually on the NAS.  I could create folders and files just fine
> with Dolphin.  Well, isn't that interesting.  Finally I found a comment
> with google that gave me a clue.  I needed to change the options I use
> with rsync plus it appears on my computer, I need to su to dale, same
> user as on NAS.  Now it works.  I can rsync my files over.
>
> Then I noticed something else.  The network card in the NAS box, it's a
> old 100MB card.  Has anyone ever poured cold molasses before?  Does
> waiting on leap year sound familiar?  ROFL  Just saying.
>
> Hey, at least I got the silly thing to work, slowly, but works.  :/
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)

Congrats on making progress.

Is this still FreeNAS or did you switch to TrueNAS Core?

Yeah, 100Mb/S, or say 12MB/S takes days to move
multiple Terrabytes. I did it inside of a screen session so that
I could disconnect and leave it running in the background
without having to watch cold molasses flow. I'm looking
to upgrade everything to 2.5Gb/S or higher one of these
days but once the initial backup is done regular backups
are reasonably fast.

I was disappointed in the info Frank found about not being
able to bond Pools, but it still makes me wonder if someone
could create a 14TB RAID0 outside of the pool and then bond
that RAID0 with a 14TB drive to make a 14TB ZFS RAID1.

Not looking to do it myself though... ;-)

- Mark