Migrating apps using a hostpath storage config to a new app pool

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Hi all, I am using my HDD pool as my main app pool, and want to migrate to my SSD pool for apps. My apps are already on storage host paths pointing to the SSD app pool, and had some questions before I made any major changes:

  1. Since the host paths are already pointed at the SSD pool, would migrating to the SSD Pool be a moot point?
  2. I’ve seen posts where ix-apps is migrated automatically, does this also apply to apps using host path?

If a manual migration is needed for the apps, I envision the manual migration to go something like this… am I off-base?

  1. Changing the current app pool to the SSD pool.
  2. Manually installing apps from “Discover Apps” (mine are all stable/community builds) and setting the storage configs to the previously defined datasets.

Thanks!

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Pre 24.10 versions of TrueNAS supported moving apps from pool to pool, now they don’t.

So therefore you need to do exactly what you said, aka

  1. Changing current app pool to SSD
  2. Manually install apps again and setting the storage configs to previous datasets and redoing settings, etc
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Thanks Steven! Will do.