Can anybody comment on trying to load a configuration/settings database from a FreeNAS-8.0-RELEASE-i386 install (2011 time frame) into a fresh new FreeNAS-11.2-RELEASE-U1 install? I am trying to do that now, but it does not seem to working. After doing the configuration/settings import with the new system, as I watch the system reboot on the console, I see a lot errors that seem to crop up on the database conversion import, but it does at least finish. Then, when I try to log into the web UI of the new system (with old settings that are now theoretically imported), the login seems to hang. I can refresh the webpage, and eventually get into the web UI, but then none of the settings that I tried to import seem to have been taken.
So, is there too much of a difference between a v8.0 system and new v11.2 install to make a settings export/import operation possible?
I do not have a terribly complex configuration so recreating it by hand would not be too much of an issue. But more than anything, I have two 2TB drives that were in a ZFS mirror config under the old v8.0 system, and I'd like them to arrive intact as a mirror into this new v11.2 system, but that has not happened. If I could simply manually recreate the ZFS mirror with those the two drives under the new v11.2 install--while maintaining all the data that they contain--that would be fine, too.
Thanks for any comments or guidance you might be able to offer!
So, is there too much of a difference between a v8.0 system and new v11.2 install to make a settings export/import operation possible?
I do not have a terribly complex configuration so recreating it by hand would not be too much of an issue. But more than anything, I have two 2TB drives that were in a ZFS mirror config under the old v8.0 system, and I'd like them to arrive intact as a mirror into this new v11.2 system, but that has not happened. If I could simply manually recreate the ZFS mirror with those the two drives under the new v11.2 install--while maintaining all the data that they contain--that would be fine, too.
Thanks for any comments or guidance you might be able to offer!