thedirtmerchant
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OK, so I put together a FreeNAS box and broke several rules along the way.
The drives started to have errors, then the boot device failed.
I'm in the process of building a "sanctioned hardware" FreeNas box (mobo arrives Monday! WooHoo!). Thread Here.
And planning to follow the rules/guidelines going forward. Anyway, moving on...
Since everything went down hill a few weeks ago, the original box has been off/unplugged and occasionally noticed from the corner of my eye with a bit of disdain.
Anyway, I want to recover any of the files that I can from the old drives.
I was using 2 3TB drives RAIDZ1 and FreeNAS 9.2.1.3
Unfortunately, the only config file I have is from 8.3.0 (Believe I backed up the config when I upgraded to 9.2)
I am expecting to use FreeNAS 9.10 (possibility of Corral, but I haven't really put much thought into that decision yet).
What is my process to attempt to recover the data?
Do I put my new box together and once I confirm POST, connect the old drives to it using 9.10, import the old config
and then copy any files I can to an external drive? Then proceed with the hardware burn in, memtest, drive tests etc?
Or should I be doing all the hardware testing before I do ANYTHING else?
Also, is there some sticky post somewhere that gives a walkthrough on what needs to be done for connecting the old drives,
importing etc?
Are there any issues between 8.3/9.2.1.3 and 9.10 and drive recognition? Or importing 8.3 config files?
I have plenty of questions, but I'll start with those.
The drives started to have errors, then the boot device failed.
I'm in the process of building a "sanctioned hardware" FreeNas box (mobo arrives Monday! WooHoo!). Thread Here.
And planning to follow the rules/guidelines going forward. Anyway, moving on...
Since everything went down hill a few weeks ago, the original box has been off/unplugged and occasionally noticed from the corner of my eye with a bit of disdain.
Anyway, I want to recover any of the files that I can from the old drives.
I was using 2 3TB drives RAIDZ1 and FreeNAS 9.2.1.3
Unfortunately, the only config file I have is from 8.3.0 (Believe I backed up the config when I upgraded to 9.2)
I am expecting to use FreeNAS 9.10 (possibility of Corral, but I haven't really put much thought into that decision yet).
What is my process to attempt to recover the data?
Do I put my new box together and once I confirm POST, connect the old drives to it using 9.10, import the old config
and then copy any files I can to an external drive? Then proceed with the hardware burn in, memtest, drive tests etc?
Or should I be doing all the hardware testing before I do ANYTHING else?
Also, is there some sticky post somewhere that gives a walkthrough on what needs to be done for connecting the old drives,
importing etc?
Are there any issues between 8.3/9.2.1.3 and 9.10 and drive recognition? Or importing 8.3 config files?
I have plenty of questions, but I'll start with those.