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I was finally able to get a 500GB hard drive nearing the end of the day today which basically means that I won’t be able to finish with the file server today. I recabled the hard drives that are currently there so I would only access the two storage hard drives and not touch the hard drive that has the FreeNAS installed and I also hooked up the 500GB hard drive to the server.

I was able to get a 500GB Seagate SATA hard drive but since that server doesn’t support SATA I had to also get an external enclosure that would convert from SATA to USB so that I can hook it up to that server. I used the SysRescCD to boot up that box and mount the three hard drives to copy all data from the storage hard drives over to the 500GB HD.

Formatting the new hard drive took like forever to do and it now has an ext3 partition. I’m copying all the data over to that drive as I’m writing this and it seems that it’s going to happen all through the night. If copy goes without a glitch, even if it takes all day tomorrow, I will be hooking everything back the way it was and formatting the storage hard drives in that server to copy all the data back again to those hard drives.

After this I’ll be looking into using that 500GB HD as my backup solution and possibly moving it offsite to have a backup kept offsite. In case this were to be the scenario then the hard drive would be encrypted using truecrypt and data stored on it encrypted. Either that or I’ll be using it to store my photographs…

-LM