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19.1 Legacy Series / Secondary ZFS pool
« on: February 04, 2019, 02:56:36 am »
Hello everyone! Sorry for the basic question but I'm new to OPNsense and tried searching everywhere and couldn't find an answer.
Is it possible to add a second HDD/SSD and create a secondary ZFS pool without OPNsense doing anything to the data in this pool?
I've been playing with OPNsense in VirtualBox and could add an extra HDD (identified as ada1) and could create a new zpool (zpool create tank ada1) but whenever I reboot, the pool is emptied (no files appear when browsing through ssh even though the USED field in the zfs dataset is not reset).
I know there's been lots of people in the past asking how to attach an extra HDD and sharing it via SMB/AFP (I only need SSH) and the answer has always been "it's not recommended", but I'm looking to use this as an extra backup pool in case my primary backup server dies, and I don't want to dedicate a Xeon + 8GB of ECC RAM just for my router/firewall.
Thanks!
Is it possible to add a second HDD/SSD and create a secondary ZFS pool without OPNsense doing anything to the data in this pool?
I've been playing with OPNsense in VirtualBox and could add an extra HDD (identified as ada1) and could create a new zpool (zpool create tank ada1) but whenever I reboot, the pool is emptied (no files appear when browsing through ssh even though the USED field in the zfs dataset is not reset).
I know there's been lots of people in the past asking how to attach an extra HDD and sharing it via SMB/AFP (I only need SSH) and the answer has always been "it's not recommended", but I'm looking to use this as an extra backup pool in case my primary backup server dies, and I don't want to dedicate a Xeon + 8GB of ECC RAM just for my router/firewall.
Thanks!