Transferring config from corrupt USB

[cjastacio]

The next thing I have to do is get my data on my new truenas hardware from my old freenas hardware. Basically moving the data HDDs over to the newly built system. So I was looking for confirmation that I follow the instructions I linked to get my data back.

 

[NugentS]

@cjastacio look at the script available in the resources section: https://www.truenas.com/community/resources/multi_report-sh-version-for-core-and-scale.179/

This will email you a regular copy of the config making a rebuilding following an oops moment incredibly simple

Oops moment like USB Boot failing or (no reason for this example) a script going rogue because I deleted the folder it was CD'ing into (and had no error checking) and then changed the permissions of /etc to something they really shouldn't have been. TN kept running, but wasn't half complaining about wrong permissions.

 

[artlessknave]

(no reason for this example)

got it. no reason at all. hypothetically.

 

[Redcoat]

that post applies to getting the config file, which is stored on the boot pool. there is no automatic backup to the data pool unless you make one.

That’s not so - there is an automatic configuration save each day at 03h15 to the system dataset. The system dataset is automatically moved to the first-created data pool on creation and will remain there unless moved. So, unless it has been specifically moved elsewhere, the automatic daily configuration backup will be found as indicated in the post l earlier linked.
If the OP so desires, he can install his “old” drives in his “new” instance, and copy the “old” config file of choice from the pool to the “new” instance in order to reduce the amount of reconfiguration required to match up the new operation with the old.

 

[danb35]

there is an automatic configuration save each day at 03h15 to the system dataset.

...and this has been the case since 9.3 was released (except that it's at 0345, not 0315, at least for me), almost 9 years ago now. People really ought to be aware of this by now. Of course, iX has done diddly squat to actually take advantage of it despite repeated requests...

 

[Davvo]

Of course, iX has done diddly squat to actually take advantage of it despite repeated requests...

/core/coretutorials/systemconfiguration/usingconfigurationbackups/

It is written in the documents though.
And while it's handy to have an auto-backup function, it's mostly not required in enterprise.

You manually back-up when you finish settings up your system, then if you want every things you change something (which shouln't be often in that kind of settings) you just have to manually copy that again.

Or, just leave it there since it's mostly accessible.
I don't think that iX did something bad here, though it's possible I missed one or more pieces since I'm new here.

 

[Redcoat]

except that it's at 0345, not 0315, at least for me

Yes - it's at 03h45 for me, too - poor recall...

 

[cjastacio]

OK, so it looks like I possibly have two options to recover my config!

1. According to @Redcoat I can import my pools after installing my disks on the new system and the config should be on there as a backup.
2. According to @NugentS I can use multi_report.sh on the new system with the old USB and get my config mailed to me.

Granted, these are probably overly simplified explanations on option by me. I have yet to study into these suggestions but I hope I'm understanding both correctly. It would be amazing to pull this off with either!

 

[artlessknave]

I have no idea what I was on yesterday. I looked at this today as was like "of course that's in the system dataset"
as such, most of what I said about automatic config backups yesterday has less value than bathwater and should be ignored...

 

[cjastacio]

OK, I got the new system up with disks transferred and pools imported without issue. I'm now trying to recover as per @Redcoat instructions. However, I don't see my old configs in here. Unless I need to wait a bit for them to show up?

Code:

root@truenas[/var/db/system]# ls -al
total 25
drwxr-xr-x  15 root  wheel    17 Apr 28 12:31 .
drwxr-xr-x  15 root  wheel  1408 Apr 28 12:38 ..
drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel     3 Apr 27 03:45 configs-bd26c8fd36fd4618a75dffa52c04f828
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel     2 Sep 28  2015 configs-efe80cf173ee4613ae999183b3905792
drwxr-xr-x   4 root  wheel     5 Aug 31  2017 consul
drwxrwxr-x   2 root  wheel     2 Apr 28 12:38 cores
drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel     3 Apr 26 21:45 netatalk
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel     0 Sep 28  2015 nfs-stablerestart
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel     0 Sep 28  2015 nfs-stablerestart.bak
drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel     4 Apr 28 12:38 rrd-bd26c8fd36fd4618a75dffa52c04f828
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel     2 Sep 28  2015 rrd-efe80cf173ee4613ae999183b3905792
drwxr-xr-x   4 root  wheel    29 Apr 26 21:45 samba4
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel     2 Apr 26 21:45 services
drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel     3 Apr 26 21:45 syslog-bd26c8fd36fd4618a75dffa52c04f828
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel     2 Sep 28  2015 syslog-efe80cf173ee4613ae999183b3905792
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel     2 Apr 27 01:27 update
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel     2 Apr 26 21:45 webui
root@truenas[/var/db/system]# ls -al configs-bd26c8fd36fd4618a75dffa52c04f828/TrueNAS-13.0-U4       
total 58
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel       3 Apr 27 03:45 .
drwxr-xr-x  3 root  wheel       3 Apr 27 03:45 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  712704 Apr 27 03:45 20230427.db
root@truenas[/var/db/system]# ls -al configs-efe80cf173ee4613ae999183b3905792
total 9
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel   2 Sep 28  2015 .
drwxr-xr-x  15 root  wheel  17 Apr 28 12:31 ..
root@truenas[/var/db/system]# ls -al rrd-bd26c8fd36fd4618a75dffa52c04f828/ 
total 42
drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel   4 Apr 28 12:38 .
drwxr-xr-x  15 root  wheel  17 Apr 28 12:31 ..
drwxr-xr-x  78 root  wheel  78 Apr 28 12:38 localhost
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel  30 Apr 28 12:38 truenas.local -> /var/db/collectd/rrd/localhost
root@truenas[/var/db/system]# ls -al rrd-efe80cf173ee4613ae999183b3905792
total 9
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel   2 Sep 28  2015 .
drwxr-xr-x  15 root  wheel  17 Apr 28 12:31 ..
root@truenas[/var/db/system]# ls -al syslog-bd26c8fd36fd4618a75dffa52c04f828
total 18
drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel   3 Apr 26 21:45 .
drwxr-xr-x  15 root  wheel  17 Apr 28 12:31 ..
drwxr-xr-x   7 root  wheel  26 Apr 27 00:00 log
root@truenas[/var/db/system]# ls -al syslog-bd26c8fd36fd4618a75dffa52c04f828/log
total 101
drwxr-xr-x  7 root  wheel       26 Apr 27 00:00 .
drwxr-xr-x  3 root  wheel        3 Apr 26 21:45 ..
-rw-------  1 root  wheel     1497 Apr 28 12:32 auth.log
-rw-------  1 root  wheel    74891 Apr 28 12:37 console.log
-rw-------  1 root  wheel    61290 Apr 28 12:45 cron
-rw-------  1 root  wheel    67873 Apr 28 12:45 daemon.log
-rw-------  1 root  wheel      544 Apr 28 12:38 debug.log
drwxr-xr-x  5 root  wheel        5 Apr 26 21:37 libvirt
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel       63 Apr 26 21:45 lpd-errs
-rw-r-----  1 root  wheel       61 Apr 27 00:00 maillog
-rw-r-----  1 root  wheel      130 Apr 27 00:00 maillog.0.bz2
-rw-------  1 root  wheel    62922 Apr 28 12:38 messages
-rw-r-----  1 root  wheel    81203 Apr 28 12:38 middlewared.log
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel        3 Apr 26 21:45 nginx
drwxr-xr-x  2 uucp  uucp         2 Apr 26 21:37 nut
-rw-r-----  1 root  network     63 Apr 26 21:45 ppp.log
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel        2 Apr 26 21:45 proftpd
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel        2 Apr 26 21:37 samba4
-rw-------  1 root  wheel       63 Apr 26 21:45 security
-rw-r-----  1 uucp  uucp        63 Apr 26 21:45 ups.log
-rw-------  1 root  wheel     4185 Apr 28 11:45 userlog
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      197 Apr 28 12:32 utx.lastlogin
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      139 Apr 28 12:32 utx.log
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel        0 Apr 28 12:38 wtmp
-rw-------  1 root  wheel       63 Apr 26 21:45 xferlog
-rw-r-----  1 root  wheel        0 Apr 26 21:44 zettarepl.log
root@truenas[/var/db/system]# ls -al syslog-efe80cf173ee4613ae999183b3905792
total 9
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel   2 Sep 28  2015 .
drwxr-xr-x  15 root  wheel  17 Apr 28 12:31 ..

It looks like efe80cf173ee4613ae999183b3905792 corresponds to my old Freenas install but all directories referencing that build are empty. Is there somewhere else I should be looking?

 

[Redcoat]

OK, I got the new system up with disks transferred and pools imported without issue. I'm now trying to recover as per @Redcoat instructions. However, I don't see my old configs in here. Unless I need to wait a bit for them to show up?

Code:

root@truenas[/var/db/system]# ls -al
total 25
drwxr-xr-x  15 root  wheel    17 Apr 28 12:31 .
drwxr-xr-x  15 root  wheel  1408 Apr 28 12:38 ..
drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel     3 Apr 27 03:45 configs-bd26c8fd36fd4618a75dffa52c04f828
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel     2 Sep 28  2015 configs-efe80cf173ee4613ae999183b3905792
drwxr-xr-x   4 root  wheel     5 Aug 31  2017 consul
drwxrwxr-x   2 root  wheel     2 Apr 28 12:38 cores
drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel     3 Apr 26 21:45 netatalk
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel     0 Sep 28  2015 nfs-stablerestart
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel     0 Sep 28  2015 nfs-stablerestart.bak
drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel     4 Apr 28 12:38 rrd-bd26c8fd36fd4618a75dffa52c04f828
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel     2 Sep 28  2015 rrd-efe80cf173ee4613ae999183b3905792
drwxr-xr-x   4 root  wheel    29 Apr 26 21:45 samba4
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel     2 Apr 26 21:45 services
drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel     3 Apr 26 21:45 syslog-bd26c8fd36fd4618a75dffa52c04f828
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel     2 Sep 28  2015 syslog-efe80cf173ee4613ae999183b3905792
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel     2 Apr 27 01:27 update
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel     2 Apr 26 21:45 webui
root@truenas[/var/db/system]# ls -al configs-bd26c8fd36fd4618a75dffa52c04f828/TrueNAS-13.0-U4    
total 58
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel       3 Apr 27 03:45 .
drwxr-xr-x  3 root  wheel       3 Apr 27 03:45 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  712704 Apr 27 03:45 20230427.db
root@truenas[/var/db/system]# ls -al configs-efe80cf173ee4613ae999183b3905792
total 9
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel   2 Sep 28  2015 .
drwxr-xr-x  15 root  wheel  17 Apr 28 12:31 ..
root@truenas[/var/db/system]# ls -al rrd-bd26c8fd36fd4618a75dffa52c04f828/
total 42
drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel   4 Apr 28 12:38 .
drwxr-xr-x  15 root  wheel  17 Apr 28 12:31 ..
drwxr-xr-x  78 root  wheel  78 Apr 28 12:38 localhost
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel  30 Apr 28 12:38 truenas.local -> /var/db/collectd/rrd/localhost
root@truenas[/var/db/system]# ls -al rrd-efe80cf173ee4613ae999183b3905792
total 9
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel   2 Sep 28  2015 .
drwxr-xr-x  15 root  wheel  17 Apr 28 12:31 ..
root@truenas[/var/db/system]# ls -al syslog-bd26c8fd36fd4618a75dffa52c04f828
total 18
drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel   3 Apr 26 21:45 .
drwxr-xr-x  15 root  wheel  17 Apr 28 12:31 ..
drwxr-xr-x   7 root  wheel  26 Apr 27 00:00 log
root@truenas[/var/db/system]# ls -al syslog-bd26c8fd36fd4618a75dffa52c04f828/log
total 101
drwxr-xr-x  7 root  wheel       26 Apr 27 00:00 .
drwxr-xr-x  3 root  wheel        3 Apr 26 21:45 ..
-rw-------  1 root  wheel     1497 Apr 28 12:32 auth.log
-rw-------  1 root  wheel    74891 Apr 28 12:37 console.log
-rw-------  1 root  wheel    61290 Apr 28 12:45 cron
-rw-------  1 root  wheel    67873 Apr 28 12:45 daemon.log
-rw-------  1 root  wheel      544 Apr 28 12:38 debug.log
drwxr-xr-x  5 root  wheel        5 Apr 26 21:37 libvirt
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel       63 Apr 26 21:45 lpd-errs
-rw-r-----  1 root  wheel       61 Apr 27 00:00 maillog
-rw-r-----  1 root  wheel      130 Apr 27 00:00 maillog.0.bz2
-rw-------  1 root  wheel    62922 Apr 28 12:38 messages
-rw-r-----  1 root  wheel    81203 Apr 28 12:38 middlewared.log
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel        3 Apr 26 21:45 nginx
drwxr-xr-x  2 uucp  uucp         2 Apr 26 21:37 nut
-rw-r-----  1 root  network     63 Apr 26 21:45 ppp.log
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel        2 Apr 26 21:45 proftpd
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel        2 Apr 26 21:37 samba4
-rw-------  1 root  wheel       63 Apr 26 21:45 security
-rw-r-----  1 uucp  uucp        63 Apr 26 21:45 ups.log
-rw-------  1 root  wheel     4185 Apr 28 11:45 userlog
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      197 Apr 28 12:32 utx.lastlogin
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      139 Apr 28 12:32 utx.log
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel        0 Apr 28 12:38 wtmp
-rw-------  1 root  wheel       63 Apr 26 21:45 xferlog
-rw-r-----  1 root  wheel        0 Apr 26 21:44 zettarepl.log
root@truenas[/var/db/system]# ls -al syslog-efe80cf173ee4613ae999183b3905792
total 9
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel   2 Sep 28  2015 .
drwxr-xr-x  15 root  wheel  17 Apr 28 12:31 ..

It looks like efe80cf173ee4613ae999183b3905792 corresponds to my old Freenas install but all directories referencing that build are empty. Is there somewhere else I should be looking?

No, they're not actually empty - you can't open them as you are trying. If you don't have WINSCP as I suggest (and I'm sure you'll like it if you get it - it's free, all you have to do is set up SSH access), then use MC (midnight commander) at the command line for a "Norton Commander MSDOS-like" experience to open them and see what's there.

Here's the latest from one of mine:

 

[cjastacio]

I'm not on Windows I'm on Linux so I'm just using the console. I'll spin up a Windows VM and give it a shot with WinSCP.

 

[cjastacio]

Still no luck on WinSCP. I thought it would be odd to see on WinSCP and not with an ls -al. However, I must be missing something as the ls command on my SSH session does say that there are 9 files but it's only showing me the current and previous directories.

I did set the option, in WinSCP, to show hidden directories and then tried another session. Still no luck.

 

[artlessknave]

seems like either you had a version before that was fully implemented or it wasn't working for another reason.
what version were you running before?

you can ignore syslog. at best, that's just gonna be logs telling you that your USB died.

also, ls -lhaT to always include the year (i find the mix really hard to read)

my oldest TrueNAS looks like this:

Show : my oldest TrueNAS looks like this:

Code:

glpnas1% ls -lhaT /var/db/system
total 173
drwxr-xr-x  14 root  wheel    16B Apr 28 01:30:02 2023 .
drwxr-xr-x  17 root  wheel   1.6K Apr 28 14:00:01 2023 ..
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel     2B Mar 18 02:00:12 2020 configs-0d0f7fe3d5ff4c6fbec237a9780e79b2
drwxr-xr-x  37 root  wheel    37B Dec  3 03:45:00 2022 configs-7f4d67ae16c94917b949456bb9f364ad
drwxrwxr-x   2 root  wheel     2B Apr 25 18:56:21 2023 cores
drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel     4B Oct 28 22:00:14 2021 ixdiagnose
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel     0B Jan  3 02:32:47 2019 nfs-stablerestart
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel     0B Jan  3 02:32:47 2019 nfs-stablerestart.bak
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel     2B Mar 18 02:00:12 2020 rrd-0d0f7fe3d5ff4c6fbec237a9780e79b2
drwxr-xr-x   6 root  wheel     7B Apr 25 08:18:56 2023 rrd-7f4d67ae16c94917b949456bb9f364ad
drwxr-xr-x   4 root  wheel    14B Apr 25 08:19:11 2023 samba4
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel     2B Dec  7 11:15:52 2020 services
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel     2B Mar 18 02:00:12 2020 syslog-0d0f7fe3d5ff4c6fbec237a9780e79b2
drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel     3B Jan  3 02:32:36 2019 syslog-7f4d67ae16c94917b949456bb9f364ad
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel    10B Mar  1 01:16:02 2023 update
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel     2B Jan  3 02:28:18 2019 webui

Code:

glpnas1% ls -lhaT /var/db/system/configs-0d0f7fe3d5ff4c6fbec237a9780e79b2
total 25
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel     2B Mar 18 02:00:12 2020 .
drwxr-xr-x  14 root  wheel    16B Apr 28 01:30:02 2023 ..

Code:

glpnas1% ls -lhaT /var/db/system/configs-7f4d67ae16c94917b949456bb9f364ad
total 794
drwxr-xr-x  37 root  wheel    37B Dec  3 03:45:00 2022 .
drwxr-xr-x  14 root  wheel    16B Apr 28 01:30:02 2023 ..
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel    32B Jun 12 03:45:01 2017 FreeNAS-11.0-RC (ad90a865b)
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel     4B Jun 14 03:45:01 2017 FreeNAS-11.0-RC4 (ccc181927)
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel    24B Jul  6 03:45:01 2017 FreeNAS-11.0-RELEASE (a2dc21583)
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel    69B Sep 15 03:45:01 2017 FreeNAS-11.0-U1 (aa82cc58d)
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel    93B Dec 17 03:45:01 2017 FreeNAS-11.0-U3 (c5dcf4416)
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel    22B Feb  3 03:45:02 2018 FreeNAS-11.1-RELEASE (dc7d195f4)
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel   126B Jun  7 03:45:02 2018 FreeNAS-11.1-U1 (f7e246b8f)
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel    79B Aug 23 03:45:02 2018 FreeNAS-11.1-U5 (8e2a858a1)
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel   129B Dec 28 03:45:02 2018 FreeNAS-11.1-U6 (caffd76fa)
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel    77B Mar 13 03:45:01 2019 FreeNAS-11.2-RELEASE-U1 (31f889bbf)
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel    50B Apr 30 03:45:00 2019 FreeNAS-11.2-U2.1 (675d9aba9)
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel    27B May 25 03:45:00 2019 FreeNAS-11.2-U3 (e140b6b8a)
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel    50B Jul 12 03:45:00 2019 FreeNAS-11.2-U4.1 (e33ce960b8)
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel   111B Oct 30 03:45:01 2019 FreeNAS-11.2-U5 (c129415c52)
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel    52B Dec 19 03:45:01 2019 FreeNAS-11.2-U6 (5acc1dec66)
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel    74B Feb 29 03:45:01 2020 FreeNAS-11.2-U7 (299a0ab8e2)
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel   103B Jun  9 03:45:00 2020 FreeNAS-11.2-U8 (06e1172340)
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel    48B Jul 25 03:45:00 2020 FreeNAS-11.3-U3.2
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel    83B Oct 15 03:45:00 2020 FreeNAS-11.3-U4
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel    55B Dec  7 03:45:00 2020 FreeNAS-11.3-U5
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel     3B Aug 26 04:45:03 2016 FreeNAS-9.10.1 (d989edd)
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel     7B Jan  6 03:45:00 2017 FreeNAS-9.10.1-U4 (ec9a7d3)
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel    93B Apr  9 03:45:00 2017 FreeNAS-9.10.2 (a476f16)
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel    36B May 13 03:45:01 2017 FreeNAS-9.10.2-U2 (e1497f2)
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel     6B Dec 11 03:45:00 2020 TrueNAS-12.0-RELEASE
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel    40B Jan 18 03:45:00 2021 TrueNAS-12.0-U1
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel    31B Feb 16 03:45:00 2021 TrueNAS-12.0-U1.1
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel    67B Apr 22 03:45:00 2021 TrueNAS-12.0-U2
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel   150B Sep 17 03:45:00 2021 TrueNAS-12.0-U3
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel    34B Oct 19 03:45:00 2021 TrueNAS-12.0-U5.1
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel    65B Dec 21 03:45:00 2021 TrueNAS-12.0-U6
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel    52B Feb  9 03:45:00 2022 TrueNAS-12.0-U7
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel   238B Oct  3 03:45:00 2022 TrueNAS-12.0-U8
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel    61B Dec  2 03:45:00 2022 TrueNAS-12.0-U8.1
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel   147B Apr 28 03:45:00 2023 TrueNAS-13.0-U3.1

 

[cjastacio]

...and this has been the case since 9.3

I was running Freenas 11.2-U8 before all of this. I'm not sure what gives here:(

 

[Redcoat]

Still no luck on WinSCP. I thought it would be odd to see on WinSCP and not with an ls -al. However, I must be missing something as the ls command on my SSH session does say that there are 9 files but it's only showing me the current and previous directories.

I did set the option, in WinSCP, to show hidden directories and then tried another session. Still no luck.

Are there no other configs-bigstring files?

 

[artlessknave]

Still no luck on WinSCP

winSCP, ssh, and the webUI console are just different ways to access the same location.

the contents of /var/db/system will be the same.
or, well, the unfortunate lack on contents, in this case.

 

[cjastacio]

Are there no other configs-bigstring files?

There is but this looks like it corresponds to the new install and not the old. These are the only two configs files that i found in the described directory.

Code:

root@truenas[~]# ls -lhaT /var/db/system/configs-bd26c8fd36fd4618a75dffa52c04f828/TrueNAS-13.0-U4   
total 58
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel     3B Apr 27 03:45:00 2023 .
drwxr-xr-x  3 root  wheel     3B Apr 27 03:45:00 2023 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   696K Apr 27 03:45:00 2023 20230427.db
root@truenas[~]# ls -lhaT /var/db/system/ | grep configs                                         
drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel     3B Apr 27 03:45:00 2023 configs-bd26c8fd36fd4618a75dffa52c04f828
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel     2B Sep 28 16:20:45 2015 configs-efe80cf173ee4613ae999183b3905792

 

[Redcoat]

Are there no other configs-bigstring files?

Oh, sorry - I see you say that "2 Sep 28 2015 configs-efe80cf173ee4613ae999183b3905792" is empty.

 

[artlessknave]

hmm. do you have more than one data pool? if so, did you import the *correct* pool first? because only one would have had the old .system. if you imported one that didnt have your old .system, you would see nothing but the new .system.

zfs list | grep .system ?