Mounting FreeNas USB

[curym]

The Mobo for my Freenas build has ran into some problems where the USB controller seems to cause Kernel panics (or something) whenever I try and boot from a USB port. As a temporary measure I've installed FreeNas on a SSD however I didn't have a backup on my Config file.

I was following this guide (https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/recover-freenas-configuration-from-os-drive.15426/) however when I attempt to mount the USB I get 'invalid arguement : /dev/da0p2'

I've been trying to mount the volume on a Ubuntu by importing it with zpool and set the mount directory to '/mnt/zfs' however the folder remains empty. I've tried doing the same on the SSD Freenas install with no luck.

I know that files exist in the pool as when I run 'zpool status' it warns me about a corrupt file lol.

What I am doing wrong?

 

[anodos]

It's dead, Jim.

Why not just recreate your config? It might take less time than trying to recover it.

 

[curym]

I think I will now. Just annoyed me that I couldn't get it to work. :/

 

[danb35]

You have backups of your config file in your .system dataset. When it's mounted on FreeNAS, it's put at /var/db/system. Up to 30 are stored there, and a new one is created each time there's a configuration change. Find the last one before the USB died, copy that, upload it, and you're golden.