Motherboard died - How to transfer to a new one

[krizo96]

Good day!
I'm really new to all of this and I build a NAS from my old computer, but due to a severe thunderstorm, the motherboard died. I have to go and buy a new one but I'm not sure what's the safest/best way to go about transferring my drives with the data intact to the new platform. Thanks!

 

[Basil Hendroff]

Refer to this resource Moving FreeNAS to new Hardware

 

[Yorick]

Of note: If you didn't take a config backup, your old config is in /var/db/system/config-xxxx/some-sub-folder. You can grab it from there and re-import after reinstall on new hardware, IF you even need to reinstall. You might be able to just boot from your previous boot media, if that survived the thunderstorm.

 

[krizo96]

Refer to this resource Moving FreeNAS to new Hardware

I really didn't expect it to be that straightforward, thank you!

Of note: If you didn't take a config backup, your old config is in /var/db/system/config-xxxx/some-sub-folder. You can grab it from there and re-import after reinstall on new hardware, IF you even need to reinstall. You might be able to just boot from your previous boot media, if that survived the thunderstorm.

Thanks, the state of my drive is my biggest concern and I don't really have a way of checking at the moment,