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HwyXingFrog
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Is there anything special I need to do if I want to move my whole FreeNAS box (Hard Drives and USB Stick) to a new machine?
I want to move my 6xWD20EARS drives from 4 year old AMD based box with 4GB of ram to a new Intel Core i3 & H67 box with 8GB of Ram.
I'm pretty sure I had tried FreeNAS on the Intel box before I pulled the processor to use the PC for my main box until now.
My assumption is that all I need to do is plug in the 6 hard drives and my current USB stick (that's running FreeNAS) and power it up (just have to make sure to boot off USB.
Even if I wanted to go a step further and just backup my config and do a fresh install on a different USB stick, should everything go smoothly?
I had done similar upgrades to this with linux raid 5 (mdadm) years ago when I was using Ubuntu as my NAS server. And since mdadm basically detects the raid5 on boot everything went very smoothly. Although I was very careful with my swap, I made sure to disable the automount in fstab for the first couple boots so that I could make sure everything was good by manually initializing the RAID and manually mounting it for the first boot or two, but like I said everything was detected on the new machine without any work required when switching to the new system.
Is there a recommended process for doing this hardware upgrade?
What I was thinking of doing was a fresh FreeNAS install to USB stick on the new machine, and don't load any of my config from the old USB stick until I'm sure all my hard drives are detected. Like I said before, I'm pretty sure FreeNAS worked well with my H67 Motherboard.
I'm still relatively new to FreeNAS and ZFS, as I've only been using it for a few months now, and am just curious for some direction here.
Thanks.
I want to move my 6xWD20EARS drives from 4 year old AMD based box with 4GB of ram to a new Intel Core i3 & H67 box with 8GB of Ram.
I'm pretty sure I had tried FreeNAS on the Intel box before I pulled the processor to use the PC for my main box until now.
My assumption is that all I need to do is plug in the 6 hard drives and my current USB stick (that's running FreeNAS) and power it up (just have to make sure to boot off USB.
Even if I wanted to go a step further and just backup my config and do a fresh install on a different USB stick, should everything go smoothly?
I had done similar upgrades to this with linux raid 5 (mdadm) years ago when I was using Ubuntu as my NAS server. And since mdadm basically detects the raid5 on boot everything went very smoothly. Although I was very careful with my swap, I made sure to disable the automount in fstab for the first couple boots so that I could make sure everything was good by manually initializing the RAID and manually mounting it for the first boot or two, but like I said everything was detected on the new machine without any work required when switching to the new system.
Is there a recommended process for doing this hardware upgrade?
What I was thinking of doing was a fresh FreeNAS install to USB stick on the new machine, and don't load any of my config from the old USB stick until I'm sure all my hard drives are detected. Like I said before, I'm pretty sure FreeNAS worked well with my H67 Motherboard.
I'm still relatively new to FreeNAS and ZFS, as I've only been using it for a few months now, and am just curious for some direction here.
Thanks.