Macaroni323
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- Oct 8, 2015
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I have a simple FreeNAS v11.2 U8 system (very old Xeon 3230 and maxed out RAM at 8GB) that has been running off 2 USB as boot mirrored. One USB has begun to fail and so I replaced that with a larger USB (selecting use the maximum size) and allowed the system to resolver. Resilvering took about 36 hrs (WTH!). Now the machine boots in about 10-11 minutes. Not sure what went on. The boot image is extremely large from the older images (3GB vs 750kB). Now I've bit the bullet and purchased 2 120GB SSDs and would like to reinstall 11.2U8 or even move to the final FreeNAS 11.3 U5 as a fresh install on the SSDs. It doesn't appear the the documentation shows how to do a fresh install with importation of my previous pool (or it's not obvious). Are there any important steps I need to do to keep from trashing my pools? I've backed up the data on the pools and backed up the v11.2 U8 current configuration. Do I need to check the box when doing the configuration backup to get all configuration data including passwords? Will the fresh install recognize my pools on the drives in the machine or should I pull the pool drives when doing the fresh install and import after a shutdown/drive install and reboot with the system running on the SSDs? I needs some numbered steps. FreeNAS runs pretty stable so I actually don't rember how to interact with it very much from either the web page or the command line. Truly a noob (even though I've been using FreeNAS since v9.3.