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Napp-it question

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Chellexelle

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So I just finished my server and have OmniOS and Napp-it installed and configured although I have not yet set up my ZFS pool or anything. My question is on the best (fastest) way to transfer data to my new server from external drives.

Can I plug the drives directly into the server and copy the data over within Napp-it on my Windows PC or am I only able to plug the drives into my Windows PC and copy the data over to the server from my PC which will be slow as hell?
 
what format are the current drives? if they are ntfs from windows, I'd just go through your pc assuming you have gigabit ethernet. I'd also turn off sync on the zpool when doing the initial seed, so your copy is as fast as possible. Look at using at least lz4 compression also unless most/all your data is highly compress already, it's almost free from a resource perspective.
 
They are NTFS and is mostly just music and videos and I have many terabytes to copy over.
 
Windows cannot use ZFS and OmniOS cannot use NTFS out of the box.
You must copy data over your network. With the usual 1 Gb network you can reach up to 100 MB/s what is more than some slower green disks can achieve,

Just avoid copy tools like Teracopy. A Windows defrag prior transfer can also help.
 
I can't believe I got it all set up and running after so many weeks of BS and delays. All I need to know now in an idiot proof step by step instruction on how to set up the CIFS server and share/map to Windows so I can see it as a network drive.
 
zfs set sharesmb=name=test,guestok=true rpool/export/home

Obviously change the name=whatever you want the share name to be
and the dataset at the end. guestok means no auth if that's what you want.
 
Chellexelle said:
I can't believe I got it all set up and running after so many weeks of BS and delays. All I need to know now in an idiot proof step by step instruction on how to set up the CIFS server and share/map to Windows so I can see it as a network drive.
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If you have installed napp-it (via the wget command + reset root password afterwards)

- create a new filesystem, it is shared per default or
open menu ZFS Filesystems and click on off or sharename in the row of a filesystem to share/unshare

- if you enable guest when activating a share you can access without a password, otherwise you can use root to connect a share
- without guest access enabled, you can create other users (menu user) that have access

If you want to restrict access, you can modify permissions
- from Windows as root
- via /usr/bin/chmod
- via napp-it and ACL extension
 
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