Ok so I have been running Freenas for years, I have a Microsoft board running (4) 1Tb disks running as raid 5 ZFS booting from a USB thumb drive. We have sold our house and moved and during this insanity the Boot thumb drive came up missing. So I got another but when resetting up the system I realized I had a single disk that had died completely and with my email change I never got the notices of degraded system.
So here I am with TONS of stuff on my arrays no boot USB and 1 dead disk drive out of the 4.
I am looking for PROVEN guidance on how to go about recovering from this mess I have gotten myself into.
I can not find my external backup system so I am desperate. I got a new matching disk to replace the dead disk but am not quite sure how to proceed with the recovery (if possible)
can anyone lend some advice.
I have lost disks before and successfully replaced them and resilvered the system but this is a combination of events I have never facesd
So here I am with TONS of stuff on my arrays no boot USB and 1 dead disk drive out of the 4.
I am looking for PROVEN guidance on how to go about recovering from this mess I have gotten myself into.
I can not find my external backup system so I am desperate. I got a new matching disk to replace the dead disk but am not quite sure how to proceed with the recovery (if possible)
can anyone lend some advice.
I have lost disks before and successfully replaced them and resilvered the system but this is a combination of events I have never facesd