All,
I know this is a common question and often asked in different ways. Can I upgrade freenas .7x to 8x? OR how do I upgrade from .7x to 8x? The common answer I found was NO to both questions but I will tell you how I did it in less than 30minutes from downloading the ISO to accessing my data. I will attempt to explain this without any confusion, so follow me along.
I had 3-2TB disks and freenas .7x was installed on 4GB us stick. This part may not be relevant to you.
My daughter was fascinated by the blinking light on the USB key so she removed it and started playing with it. To keep the peace I let her play with it knowing very well it holds key information to access 3.6TB worth of Data. Somehow, the thing shattered and i don't know how. What I do know is that I had no backup of my data and or the config file. Now I feel like an Imbesile! The important thing for me is my daughter must remain happy while I severely abuse myself for not doing what I could have done to prevent that disaster. She had access to it, and the first rule to securing data is: ACCESS. She had physical Access.
If you needed to pay attention to this write up and wanted to attempt it, this is IT!!!!!!!!!!!!
Here is how I got out of that Jam:
- I purchased a micro-SD card and a USB adapter called : elago Mobile Nano II USB 2.0 microSDHC Flash Memory Card Reader
- I downloaded Freenas 8.2 and burned the ISO to a DVD
- I installed freenas on the SD-CARD and rebooted. (here I assume you know that I still have my old disk and data inside the computer and I also assume you know how to install freenas)
- I logged into the Webgui and headed straight for the storage tab and clicked on volumes.
This part is really important so follow along carefully.
You noticed I did not add disk because they are already in there.
- In volumes, I clicked auto import for volumes.
-what this did is import all three disk and maintained the volume I created.
-I then opened a shell window within the freenas GUI and ran the following command "zpool upgrade" this command in a way ensures your pre-formatted drives are now ZFSv15
- Since I knew the names of the shares I created before I lost my system, I went into Shares, CIFS and created the same exact names and browsed to the individual folders and applied the shares.
- the moment you hit Save or apply, freenas will enable CIFS shares for you in services.
- I then created the users and passwords for the shares
- I restarted freenas and accessed my data.
This is exactly what I did and others may have a different way. I can answer question, and I hope you don't have any because this is simple and straight forward.
Good Luck and thank you to the Freenas brains.
I know this is a common question and often asked in different ways. Can I upgrade freenas .7x to 8x? OR how do I upgrade from .7x to 8x? The common answer I found was NO to both questions but I will tell you how I did it in less than 30minutes from downloading the ISO to accessing my data. I will attempt to explain this without any confusion, so follow me along.
I had 3-2TB disks and freenas .7x was installed on 4GB us stick. This part may not be relevant to you.
My daughter was fascinated by the blinking light on the USB key so she removed it and started playing with it. To keep the peace I let her play with it knowing very well it holds key information to access 3.6TB worth of Data. Somehow, the thing shattered and i don't know how. What I do know is that I had no backup of my data and or the config file. Now I feel like an Imbesile! The important thing for me is my daughter must remain happy while I severely abuse myself for not doing what I could have done to prevent that disaster. She had access to it, and the first rule to securing data is: ACCESS. She had physical Access.
If you needed to pay attention to this write up and wanted to attempt it, this is IT!!!!!!!!!!!!
Here is how I got out of that Jam:
- I purchased a micro-SD card and a USB adapter called : elago Mobile Nano II USB 2.0 microSDHC Flash Memory Card Reader
- I downloaded Freenas 8.2 and burned the ISO to a DVD
- I installed freenas on the SD-CARD and rebooted. (here I assume you know that I still have my old disk and data inside the computer and I also assume you know how to install freenas)
- I logged into the Webgui and headed straight for the storage tab and clicked on volumes.
This part is really important so follow along carefully.
You noticed I did not add disk because they are already in there.
- In volumes, I clicked auto import for volumes.
-what this did is import all three disk and maintained the volume I created.
-I then opened a shell window within the freenas GUI and ran the following command "zpool upgrade" this command in a way ensures your pre-formatted drives are now ZFSv15
- Since I knew the names of the shares I created before I lost my system, I went into Shares, CIFS and created the same exact names and browsed to the individual folders and applied the shares.
- the moment you hit Save or apply, freenas will enable CIFS shares for you in services.
- I then created the users and passwords for the shares
- I restarted freenas and accessed my data.
This is exactly what I did and others may have a different way. I can answer question, and I hope you don't have any because this is simple and straight forward.
Good Luck and thank you to the Freenas brains.