Adding multiple disks

[jbraveman]

I previously had a machine running freenas ovrt a year ago. It contained 6 ufs disks that were all separate volumes. There was no raid or zfs involved. The computer has been off for a year and I wanted to get it going again and get some files off of it. I did not have the usb thumb drive that had the previous version of freenas so I installed the latest 9.3 version and booted it up.

I went through the wizard 1 time. It would only allow me to import one of the 6 drives that I have in the machine. The others were visible in the view disk menu, but not available in the import disk menu. I chose "automatic" in the pool name option during the first run through with the wizard. It created a cifs share with 1 of the 6 drives and the data was accessable. I then did a "restore to factory default" to try again. I would like to some of the data on the other drives.

Any suggestions.

Thanks

 

[pirateghost]

Well, 9.3 removed ufs entirely so that's the first issue. Use a lower version number and try again

 

[jbraveman]

I was able to import one UFS disk. Did the wizard create a zfs pool from the available space on the other drives and this is why I can not get to the data?

 

[gpsguy]

My guess, is that you're seeing the ZFS pool on the flash drive. It's now ZFS rather than UFS.

As pirateghost said, you need to use a version prior to 9.3. You can download older versions from here: http://download.freenas.org/

 

[jbraveman]

I tried 9.2 and 9.1 but got a mounting error 19 each time. I tried booting the computer with ubuntu 12... I was able to mount one ufs disk. When I queried the other disks with parted, they were listed as a zfs file system. I never used zfs before.
I did run the wizard as mentioned above and chose "automatic" when it asked me for a pool name. Does that mean zfs is now installed on those drives? Did it wipe my old data in the process?

 

[jbraveman]

I got 9.1 working with a different usb stick. However when I try to import volumes I get "The selected disks were not verified for this import rules" when choosing ufs. I've got other backups available, but I'm a bit concerned that the wizard wrecked my data.

 

[danb35]

If you ran through the wizard and created a new pool, it did exactly what you told it to do--created a ZFS pool on whatever disks you told it to use. The odds that your data is recoverable are negligible.