Went to move install to new chassis, it did not go well

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Relevant layout: Two pools, call them storage1 and storage2

For some time, I had a perfectly happy setup. Started as freenas, moved to true nas, then core, then scale.

I recently got around to moving the hardware to a better chassis, and this is when my problem happened.

Somewhere along the line, my boot drive broke (3.3 dead short to ground when checked on the sata connector if interested).

It also turns out that the config backup I have is from when I was still on 13.x

I installed 24.10 on a new boot drive and mounted my pools in the hope that I might have a more current config stored, but no luck. The system dataset area on storage1 only seems to have info for the ‘new’ install, and there doesn’t appear to be a copy of the old one on storage2.

I’m pretty sure I’m just going to have to bite the bullet and redo my exports, shares, etc using the old 13.x as a base, but I thought I would check with the bigger brains here before I do that and really ruin any chance I may or may not have. :grimacing:

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I have been there and it sucks.

Look in my signature for Multi-Report, a script that once a week (by default) emails you a copy of your TrueNAS configuration file. Needless to say, the script does considerably more than that but you might take a look at it.

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Yea, I found the post for it not long ago. I plan on getting that set up once the current thing is figured out, one way or another.

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If you do setup Multi-Report and have a question, please ask me via Message, email, or in the Multi-Report thread.