Hi guys,
My hardware is a FreeNAS Mini. I've been running FreeNAS Corral for a while now, and I decided to take the plunge and upgrade to 11. I downloaded the stable ISO off the website, plugged it in, and everything seemed to go great; I even set up a VM for docker, a few plugins, etc.
Except I must have borked it up some how, because at some point, it stopped being able to log into the GUI. No left-hand side menus would come up. I dunno. The disks were fine, the pool was fine, I figured I'd messed with something I shouldn't have.
So I reformatted and reinstalled. Everything came up great again. I logged in after the install had finished, and the initial wizard came up, asking me my time zone and various other questions. I selected my pools to import, which it recognized no problems.
However, when I hit go, it sat there for a bit, then a green popup at the top of the screen came up with "An error has occurred".
When I went to check my pools, they were all gone. There's no volume to import. Just four former RaidZ2 disks there with no data on them. Completely empty. I tried activating the "Initial Install" boot snapshot out of desperation, thinking that maybe the pool was still on the disks and maybe something had gotten borked in the internal configuration so it could no longer see them, but no. It looks like that pool really is gone.
There's years of data here that I would like to get back; there are backups, because of course there are, but restoring them is a huge job that I don't want to do. Again: this is the stock standard, FreeNAS 11 ISO taken straight from the website performing a fairly mundane operation (the install wizard importing a pool).
I have no idea how to reproduce this. More importantly for me, is there any way I can recover my data? I didn't do anything weird or strange. I just clicked 'next' on the wizard and it came up with the error. This shouldn't have happened.
Any help?
My hardware is a FreeNAS Mini. I've been running FreeNAS Corral for a while now, and I decided to take the plunge and upgrade to 11. I downloaded the stable ISO off the website, plugged it in, and everything seemed to go great; I even set up a VM for docker, a few plugins, etc.
Except I must have borked it up some how, because at some point, it stopped being able to log into the GUI. No left-hand side menus would come up. I dunno. The disks were fine, the pool was fine, I figured I'd messed with something I shouldn't have.
So I reformatted and reinstalled. Everything came up great again. I logged in after the install had finished, and the initial wizard came up, asking me my time zone and various other questions. I selected my pools to import, which it recognized no problems.
However, when I hit go, it sat there for a bit, then a green popup at the top of the screen came up with "An error has occurred".
When I went to check my pools, they were all gone. There's no volume to import. Just four former RaidZ2 disks there with no data on them. Completely empty. I tried activating the "Initial Install" boot snapshot out of desperation, thinking that maybe the pool was still on the disks and maybe something had gotten borked in the internal configuration so it could no longer see them, but no. It looks like that pool really is gone.
There's years of data here that I would like to get back; there are backups, because of course there are, but restoring them is a huge job that I don't want to do. Again: this is the stock standard, FreeNAS 11 ISO taken straight from the website performing a fairly mundane operation (the install wizard importing a pool).
I have no idea how to reproduce this. More importantly for me, is there any way I can recover my data? I didn't do anything weird or strange. I just clicked 'next' on the wizard and it came up with the error. This shouldn't have happened.
Any help?
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