How to restore disks when PC is broken

[cavallo]

Hello!

First of all I have to say that FreeNas looks very good and I'll be glad using it! I am not a specialist in linux.

I setup a Windows share according to the manuals - and it is working! Suppose, I have a simple windows share (or one windows share using two disks if possible) and some sort of software raid/backup running with FreeNas. Now, suppose the PC (mainboard, whatever) is broken, the disk (disks) is working. What would I have to do to restore the data ("copy") to "normal Windows NTFS disks"? How do I recreate a FreeNas-Server with the same disks on another PC?

regards

arno

 

[esamett]

If I understand your question you want to essentially transfer your FreeNAS data disks to a new machine. This entails importing your array/volume. There are postings on the forums on how to do this.

 

[matthewowen01]

You would have to import the disks onto another computer. zfs stores all the important information to recreate your pool on each disk. As long as you have the disks (you can even have less than the full amount as long as you had enough redundancy)

You'll plug the disks into your new system, install FreeNAS and tell FreeNAS to search for pools and import them, it's very easy.

 

[cavallo]

thank you both, I will try this!
arno