I see that the oldest FreeNAS I can download - for good reason - is v11, as confirmed in the only relevant thread I could find (https://www.truenas.com/community/threads/version-freenas-9-3-stable-201501162230.41587)
I just re-inherited a 9.3 system that hasn't been touched in years, and its (single) OS SATADOM won't boot back up after a recent shutdown. All the HDDs are known to be healthy. I assume my best course of action is:
* Remove the SATADOM and give it to someone who knows what they're doing to attempt recovery & replication of the OS.
Since that's unlikely to work (because 'someone' is usually me, where I work), I'm planning to:
* Install 9.3 on a usb drive, since that's what the system had last.
* Attempt to boot from that.
* Hope FreeNAS has a way to magically recognize and mount the zpools that are on the HDDs.
* Copy off the data and then attempt an upgrade path to TrueNAS, or change careers.
Obviously an ignorant and desperate plan. And of course we don't have backups of whatever configs would probably be useful. The person that inherited the box from me years ago swore he'd tear it down and go debian but didn't and then left, and now I'm stuck with recovering the data.
So is there really no place on the internet to find a 9.3 iso? Or is my plan equally likely to succeed with 11?
I just re-inherited a 9.3 system that hasn't been touched in years, and its (single) OS SATADOM won't boot back up after a recent shutdown. All the HDDs are known to be healthy. I assume my best course of action is:
* Remove the SATADOM and give it to someone who knows what they're doing to attempt recovery & replication of the OS.
Since that's unlikely to work (because 'someone' is usually me, where I work), I'm planning to:
* Install 9.3 on a usb drive, since that's what the system had last.
* Attempt to boot from that.
* Hope FreeNAS has a way to magically recognize and mount the zpools that are on the HDDs.
* Copy off the data and then attempt an upgrade path to TrueNAS, or change careers.
Obviously an ignorant and desperate plan. And of course we don't have backups of whatever configs would probably be useful. The person that inherited the box from me years ago swore he'd tear it down and go debian but didn't and then left, and now I'm stuck with recovering the data.
So is there really no place on the internet to find a 9.3 iso? Or is my plan equally likely to succeed with 11?