Dear Community, I am coming to you with a request for assistance. I have an old FreeNAS box, which has been rock stable for a long time (sometimes more than 1 year before a reboot), however I would like to transfer the data from it to a new box. Unfortunately I do not manage to make the two systems talk to each other. I tried to follow all the tutorials, however they just don't seem to work.
Old FreeNAS specs:
I have a DELL T20 with 12GB of ECC RAM and 3 - 4TB Disks (in RAIDZ1)
The pool is currently degraded, even though I have changed the failing HDD and it did re-silver the pool 100%. However all 3 disks are marked as online and show that they have passed in the short SMART test. The data is also fully accessible.
Current version FreeNAS-9.3-STABLE-201511040813
I tried to update it several times, however the systems refuses to post and I end up reverting to this version. That is the reason it is on this version since 2015.
My TureNAS box is a Supermicro X10SL7-F with a Xeon E3-1265L v3 and 32GB of ECC RAM. It has 8 (4TB Ironwolf drives in a RAIDZ2).
I already tried all the tutorials to make the data transfer between the two boxes, however they have all failed. That is why I am now asking for creative solutions.
I was thinking of installing a TrueNAS on a new USB drive and plugin it into the Dell T20. Would I be able to import the pools and then transfer the data between the two boxes?
The data is not backed-up anywhere else and that is why I prefer to consult with the experts, before I do something irreversible to it. The idea is to have then 2 boxes, with one being the main and the other having a backup of the data for recovery purposes.
Old FreeNAS specs:
I have a DELL T20 with 12GB of ECC RAM and 3 - 4TB Disks (in RAIDZ1)
The pool is currently degraded, even though I have changed the failing HDD and it did re-silver the pool 100%. However all 3 disks are marked as online and show that they have passed in the short SMART test. The data is also fully accessible.
Current version FreeNAS-9.3-STABLE-201511040813
I tried to update it several times, however the systems refuses to post and I end up reverting to this version. That is the reason it is on this version since 2015.
My TureNAS box is a Supermicro X10SL7-F with a Xeon E3-1265L v3 and 32GB of ECC RAM. It has 8 (4TB Ironwolf drives in a RAIDZ2).
I already tried all the tutorials to make the data transfer between the two boxes, however they have all failed. That is why I am now asking for creative solutions.
I was thinking of installing a TrueNAS on a new USB drive and plugin it into the Dell T20. Would I be able to import the pools and then transfer the data between the two boxes?
The data is not backed-up anywhere else and that is why I prefer to consult with the experts, before I do something irreversible to it. The idea is to have then 2 boxes, with one being the main and the other having a backup of the data for recovery purposes.