Recovering/Replacing Boot Drive

[StevesTechShed]

Hi all,

So is it really as easy as backup config with seed, reinstall TrueNAS Scale onto a new drive, restore config and it'll be exactly back to how it was? Network config (LACP etc), drive pools, datasets, VM configs too?

My boot SSD drive is randomly reporting a pending bad sector so I wonder if it'll die and I'll have to go through this process soon...

Cheers,
Steve

 

[Patrick M. Hausen]

It really is.

 

[NugentS]

Hi all,

So is it really as easy as backup config with seed, reinstall TrueNAS Scale onto a new drive, restore config and it'll be exactly back to how it was? Network config (LACP etc), drive pools, datasets, VM configs too?

My boot SSD drive is randomly reporting a pending bad sector so I wonder if it'll die and I'll have to go through this process soon...

Cheers,
Steve

yup.

Had to do that to my main nas when a script went rogue and change all the permissions/ownership on /etc

Process:

1. Swear a lot
2. Load up TN ISO through IPMI
3. Boot TN ISO & Install, formatting rather than extra install
4. Upload config (I get one mailed to me every day)
5. Look smug at having done all this without getting up off fat ass
6. Rewrite script that went rogue

 

[StevesTechShed]

Thanks both, that makes me happy to know :)