Boot USB stick has failed and I cannot find any saved configs.

[geronimo1958]

I need to recreate my boot usb stick.

First question: Should I stick with the version (9.3) I was using or should I go with 9.10?

Second question: Once I have FREENAS running again do I just import the existing volumes and start the task of rebuilding my configuration (users/shares) manually?

For the life of me I cannot figure out how I deleted my saved configurations.

 

[nojohnny101]

Do you have a recent saved config file?

If you do then all you have to do is create a new bootable USB and then upload your config file. No need to be exporting or importing volumes.

 

[geronimo1958]

I cannot find any of my saved config files. I know I made a few the last time I made changes to the system but I cannot ind them now.

I have searched my main computer for any .db files and none of the are related to FREENAS.

 

[maglin]

I love google drive for this. Even works cross platform since its web based.


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[geronimo1958]

If you had asked me before this happened I would have sworn I had a backup on my dropbox.

The problem has now morphed into an inability to get FREENAS to even install on a new USB stick. The problem may be hardware related.

 

[melloa]

If you had asked me before this happened I would have sworn I had a backup on my dropbox.

The problem has now morphed into an inability to get FREENAS to even install on a new USB stick. The problem may be hardware related.

I've been there and had to reconfigure all, so not a fun time ahead. Hopefully your pool is intact and you can import after installation. Amazing work from the FN developers I must say. I had reinstalled FN on a new USB flash and imported my pool several times.

Save your old boot flash and try to confirm you have a hardware problem by installing a fresh FN on another one. After that you might be able just to import your pool.

 

[geronimo1958]

The problem began a few days ago when I had a system freeze. Had been using the data on my FREENAS and when I went to shutdown the system I could not access the WebGUI. I had to just turn the system off.

Now I cannot even get FREENAS to install to a new USB. The boot occurs normally but I never get a chance to select the device on which to install FREENAS. BIOS sees the USB stick to which I want to install. I even put two destination USB sticks (both of which are seen by the BIOS) and I still get no selection menu.

Weird.

 

[nojohnny101]

One problem at a time. Can you outline what steps you have taken to get a new USB install up and running? The manual is fairly straightforward on this as even provides solutions to common problems that occur during preparing install media.

 

[geronimo1958]

I downloaded the ISO (both 9.3 and 9.10). Burned both to 4GB USB sticks. Had to use rufus since the recommended DVD/USB tool from Microsoft gave an error of invalid iso file.

 

[geronimo1958]

I went back to the old Win32DiskImager program and the usb stick it created is now preforming an install.

Hopefully everything will go a little smoother now.

 

[nojohnny101]

Ok. If you can get a new install up and running, you might have stored your config file on your pool somewhere. I would start looking there once you import your existing pool and setup a simple share to access your datasets. Or you could just use the CLI and not bother setting up the shares if you know how to navigate that way.

 

[geronimo1958]

Got the volume imported and a basic share. Looking for a config file.