freenas-boot pool is degraded - replacement steps

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My freenas-boot pool is DEGRADED. There is only one disk drive for this pool. When I run zpool status -v it lists 14 permanent errors detected. As far as I can tell everything is operating just fine but I fear a shutdown or restart. I am planning on replacing the drive.

My question is how I go about doing this while maintaining all of my settings/configurations/etc? I'm alright with downtime but I'm not alright losing all of the configurations, settings, tasks, etc that have been setup. How do I more or less mirror my current freenas-boot pool to one that isn't yet in the system? Any help appreciated.
 

Evertb1

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First: read the manual. Especialy the part that tells you how to save your configuration. Saving you configuration after any change should be second nature. It can be automated. Search the forum.
Replacing your boot medium is pretty simple and you don't need to loose any setting.

Qucik and dirty:
  1. Save you configuration file
  2. Stop your System
  3. Toss out the old boot medium
  4. Put in your new boot medium
  5. Reinstall TrueNAS (if possible the same version/build that you are running now)
  6. Boot your new TrueNAS
  7. Import you configuration
  8. You are ready for busines as usual.
Again, read the manual before you do a thing.
 
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