Currently have an 8tb and a 12tb external drives with a bunch of files that have now gotten to be a disorganized mess to keep track of. I had a need to centralize my storage and create redundancy through a storage array and I am very new to ZFS.
I just built a 24tb RAID10 configuration using 4, 12TB drives on ZFS. I also just installed samba and mounted my ZFS to a Proxmox container.
NTFS mounted on Laptop --> SMB (LXC) --> ZFS Pool on Proxmox
before I dump all my files from my personal 8tb and 12 tb external drives in order to centralize them, I was wondering how to ensure I won't lose anything of value.
For instance, Samba doesn't handle windows acls well, so it converts them to linux, which doesn't bother me, but makes me question, will I lose anything else? Is there anything I should ensure my configuration contains before hand (e.g. encryption) as it becomes much more difficult to change after its my "production" dataset.