A tale of loss, destruction and resurrection

Happliy running away at home on my Dell R420. Monday morning, I get up and there is no PiHole, and I can’t get to my data store. I go down to the basement where everything lives. Screen looks fine, but “oh no”, no response from keyboard.
One hard reboot later, and the ‘boot-pool’ is read only. Guess I should have paid attention when the docs said not to use USB for the boot-pool.
It took a few days to get the hardware I needed, but last evening I re-installed TrueNAS scale. I restored the config backup, and rebooted one more time.
Everything back as it should be. Amazing…

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…and that’s the whole point of backing up the config file.

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And heed the warnings about using a usb thumb drive for the boot-pool.