Restoring Truenas using different hardware

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I had Truenas running on an old Acer H340 Easystore which worked surprisingly well. It finally bit the dust this past weekend and I’m looking to upgrade to an Asustor AS5304T (also 4 bay).
What are the chances of installing Truenas, loading in a saved backup and installing the old drives and saving my backup information?

The backup isn’t SUPER critical, but it is about 6 months of backups that I would prefer not to lose.

Thanks,
Robert

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Chances should be pretty good. The only problem with your old config file could be that the network interface name(s) may have changed on the new hardware and need to be manually reconfigured.
Storage wise everything should be good as long as all storage disks are present when you reload your config.

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