Missing everything, reset?

[Aliko]

Hey guys,

I came back from class and found that my laptop I was using for FreeNAS was shut down. I opened it up and booted FreeNAS. I went on my phone and accessed the web. The address was changed from 65 to 68 and it was opening up as new. Meaning it was asking for information as if it was "reset". When I checked my external HDD in storage, it had no recollection of it. When I click volume manager the storage looks like its empty to FreeNAS. I don't understand whats happening, is everything gone?

 

[nojohnny101]

Please follow forum rules and post your hardware specs as well as the software version (if you can remember) that you were running.

I can tell you right now knowing very little that things don't look good from your brief description. I hate to be the one to say it but if you cared about your data, you wouldn't have run FreeNAS on grossly inadequate hardware.

I hope you have a backup!

 

[Aliko]

Please follow forum rules and post your hardware specs as well as the software version (if you can remember) that you were running.

I can tell you right now knowing very little that things don't look good from your brief description. I hate to be the one to say it but if you cared about your data, you wouldn't have run FreeNAS on grossly inadequate hardware.

I hope you have a backup!

I was using Plex plugin.
I am using a dual core, 4gigs of Ram on a 250gig HDD. The external HDD is 2tb. It worked great until today when it stopped. I don't remember the laptops specs entirely just what I stated above. The reason I ran on this mach is because I don't use it much anymore and I thought I could make use of it like so.
The version is the Latest stable version.

 

[melloa]

found that my laptop I

When I checked my external HDD in storage

is everything gone?

Sorry to say, but it might be gone. The quotes above indicates serious mistakes with a FreeNAS setup.

 

[Aliko]

Sorry to say, but it might be gone. The quotes above indicates serious mistakes with a FreeNAS setup.

Ok. I have a better 8gigs Ram MacBook pro w/ i7 laptop to retry if all the data is really gone... Watching guides is clearly not working on yt since that's how I set mine up.

 

[khh]

With the setup you have there doesn't seem to be any need for running FreeNAS at all. The main advantage of running FreeNAS is that it allows you to make a software raid with ZFS using multiple disks to get redundancy, so your data is still available if a disk fails. However it depends on high quality hardware.

For the use you're describing I'd suggest installing a Linux distro like Ubuntu on the old laptop, setting up Plex under that, and formatting the external drive with the ext4 file system. You won't get a nice web interface, but it will run fine on the hardware and recovery from an unexpected shutdown should be easier.

Unfortunately I can't offer any help or suggestions with recovering your data from the disk.

 

[melloa]

Watching guides is clearly not working on yt since that's how I set mine up.

Not sure about yt (youtube?). Check: https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?resources/hardware-recommendations-guide.12/ for hardware recommendations and https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?forums/new-to-freenas.5/ for pinned posts with helpful information. When deciding on a new server build, you can chat here: https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?forums/will-it-freenas-freenas-build-discussion.70/.