Practice Crash

TrueNAS General
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I’m in the early part of learning in anticipation of migrating from my 10yo+ NAS. I set up TrueNAS Scale with three data drives configured as RAIDZ1. I would like to practice for a motherboard death and drive death. Can I do this by using a liveUSB system as to:

  • Reformat the system drive and doing an install followed by importing my configuration file
  • Remove the partition from one of the three data drives, and reconnect it to a working install?

I picture these would be separate tests. Would there be a better way to prepare myself for either of these two failures? My experience with backup/restore is that practicing recovery is well worth the time. Thanks in advance for any thoughts.
scott

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I know this is not the answer you’re looking for but do you have a specific reason to go with TrueNAS CORE?

Core is not going to see any new development, only security updates.

The future is TrueNAS SCALE and since you’re such a new user you will have an easier time starting over.

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Thanks for the heads up. So new, I had to go back and edit the post to indicate that I was using TrueNAS SCALE. So far, it’s an amazing install.