Please help finding config files

[EnigmaNas]

Hello,
I am moving my working and backed up truenas to another more capable machine. I want to restore my config once I move the system to the new box, but I don't have any idea about where to locate and retrieve the saved config files to import into the new machine. I would appreciate it if someone could provide step by step directions I could follow to accomplish this task. I am good at following directions, so you dont need to dumb it done too much :)

 

[winnielinnie]

System -> General -> Save Config

(Also include secret seed.)

 

[EnigmaNas]

System -> General -> Save Config

(Also include secret seed.)

Thank you winnielinnie, but as I stated, I already have the configs saved. I need to access the saved config files, so they can be loaded on to a new system.

 

[winnielinnie]

You don't remember where you saved it?

The only thing anyone can say is "try to remember where you saved it". Some hints that can help is that the file extension will be .db (without secret seed) or .tar (with secret seed). It will contain "TrueNAS" within the filename.

 

[EnigmaNas]

When using the UI to create the backups of the config, as you described earlier, you are not given a location where the backups are saved, much less being able to select a location.
The files are obviously saved somewhere with the system files, but since I have no access to those files, that is a problem.
The only way I know of to access data on truenas is via windows shares, but I do not know how to access the system files.
That is basically what I need to know. How to access the internal file system. How to find a file and copy it. Simple right? :)

 

[winnielinnie]

you are not given a location where the backups are saved, much less being able to select a location.

That's your browser. Nothing to do with TrueNAS. Check your Google Chrome, Firefox, or whichever browser for a setting on prompting for download locations.

As for the file, check your computer's "Downloads" folder. If it's not there, check "Documents". I'm assuming you're on Windows.

 

[EnigmaNas]

Ahh, I see. The answer is that the files are saved locally! That was all I needed to know. I had assumed they were saved on the truenas machine, but they were saved by the browser I used to connect. I got it.
Thank you.