Restore / replace boot disk

[Jack99]

Hello,

I installed TrueNAS Scale on my Qnap NAS hardware and have a basic question about that. (it is just a home hobby network)

I have a single SSD drive in my device which is the boot-pool, then i also have two regular HDD in a mirror which act as the storagepool for data (Two VM's + some SMB shares) and all works fine.

In the event the SSD disk (boot-pool) fails and goes broken, can i then just do the following steps to restore the machine?

- Replace the failing SSD with a new one
- Install a fresh TrueNAS Scale on the new SSD
- Upload the saved configuration file

In other words will my TrueNAS Scale server be restored then, which means will the VM's and SMB shares from the storagepool on the mirrored HDD drives then be available again? Or are additional steps needed?

 

[NugentS]

Yes. It is that simple.

[Unless you have used the NAS to store the config file - in which case it adds a bit of complexity]

 

[Jack99]

Yes. It is that simple.

[Unless you have used the NAS to store the config file - in which case it adds a bit of complexity]

Ok great, and no i keep the config files in a "safe" place ;-)

Thank you