FreeNAS Disaster Recovery - How Simple!

[Nik Ansell]

Hello All,

Our cleaner managed to snap the FreeNAS boot USB stick the other day, which obviously prevented my FreeNAS server from booting.

Once the shock had subsided, I realised I had a backup of the FreeNAS config db from just a few days ago.
I managed to get my FreeNAS server back up and running in around 15 minutes :)

Although the theory is simple, I was partially expecting all sorts of things to be broken once I did the recovery. However the complete opposite happened, once I had restored the config onto a new FreeNAS build everything worked perfectly! Even my jails and plug-ins.

10/10 to the FreeNAS developers! Awesome job guys.

Kind Regards,
Nik

 

[Darren Myers]

Good to know you had a config backup, you can always do mirrored USB's too

 

[Nick2253]

Small USB sticks are your friend: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005FYNSZA/?tag=ozlp-20

Or you could install it internally: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000IV6S9S/?tag=ozlp-20

 

[Darren Myers]

Small USB sticks are your friend: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005FYNSZA/?tag=ozlp-20

I had a few USB Fits, and the read/writes were terrible, i know they're just for booting and very few changes....but it was unbearable

 

[Nick2253]

I haven't had that problem. In fact, I find them faster than most of my other thumb drives. I've since graduated to the USB3 version, but I had no problem with speed. Boots were fast, changes were fast; I don't know.

 

[Nik Ansell]

Small USB sticks are your friend: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005FYNSZA/?tag=ozlp-20

Or you could install it internally: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000IV6S9S/?tag=ozlp-20

Love the internal USB idea, thanks for the tip.