USB Thumbdrive crash

[ddaenen1]

So, i must admit, i had it coming. I always knew that running FreeNAS on a onboard USB slot on a thumbdrive with 2 HDD's in mirror with Nextcloud on it was never a reliable solution and could cause issues some day and it was always my plan to replace the thumbdrive by 2 SSD's or at least add another thumbdrive in mirror but, as in so many cases, that never happened.

Yesterday i found out that the thumbdrive was having issues which i caught because i couldn't access the GUI anymore and looking into it a bit further, the thumbdrive showed read/write errors (see below - this is what i get during boot). A reboot didn't save it so now my nextcloud server is offline.

So how do i go about to save my Nextcloud installation? I have a config backup which is one week old. Is it as simple as a new install on a new drive, importing the pool and upload the config (in that sequence) and do a reboot, or do i need to add additional steps?

I have read on it but i want to be 100% sure as i really do not want to have to fully reinstall and configure nextcloud which i running perfectly fine to date.

 

[Basil Hendroff]

No need to import the pool again, I believe, Once you restore the config, the pool should reappear. For added resilience, I'd recommend mirroring the boot drive. That way, you can avoid this situation again.

 

[ddaenen1]

For added resilience, I'd recommend mirroring the boot drive. That way, you can avoid this situation again.

That was always the plan but it just didn't happen :( My FreeNAS server running Plex is on 2 mirrored SSD's and running fine.

 

[ddaenen1]

No need to import the pool again, I believe, Once you restore the config, the pool should reappear. For added resilience, I'd recommend mirroring the boot drive. That way, you can avoid this situation again.

Well, it seems i got it fixed. Hooked up a new boot drive, did a clean install, uploaded the config file and after a couple reboots everything seems to be up and running again :)

 

[ddaenen1]

As an interim fix, i used an external 120gb USB drive. Now i need to find a permanent solution though. We are not there yet.