Need help moving disks from one install to another

[Lenovo1984]

My FreeNAS machine decided it wasn't going to boot anymore (cheap USB drive, my fault), so I reinstalled FreeNAS 11.1 onto a spare 320GB SATA mechanical drive. It works fine, and it boots a lot faster now, but I need to access my old data. Before I reinstalled the OS, I had 2x 500GB WD drives, and they were somehow setup with Windows shares (1 share for 1 drive). I don't know how to properly connect the drives to FreeNAS so I can create new shares and get my data. Anyone know how? I have managed to move these disks from one install to another before, but I think I moved them between 8.x and 9.x. This is my first time using 11.1.

 

[garm]

Simply upload the config you saved from your old system and everything will be restored

 

[Lenovo1984]

Simply upload the config you saved from your old system and everything will be restored

That's the issue, I don't have a saved config. I've moved the disks to a clean install without any configuration information before, so I know it "should" be possible, but I can't figure it out. Perhaps I should try installing an older version of FreeNAS?

 

[m0nkey_]

Since you don't have a backup of your config, you will have to reconfigure. Your pool should be safe and you should just be able to import it.

http://doc.freenas.org/11/storage.html#import-volume

 

[Lenovo1984]

Since you don't have a backup of your config, you will have to reconfigure. Your pool should be safe and you should just be able to import it.

http://doc.freenas.org/11/storage.html#import-volume

I looked at that, but FreeNAS doesn't give me any options for volumes to import. There's nothing there.

 

[m0nkey_]

Was your pool encrypted?

 

[Lenovo1984]

Was your pool encrypted?

No, I went to the part of importing a volume first. When I choose to import the disks, what should I choose as a destination?

 

[silverback]

It is likely that your pool was not cleanly exported from your old system and therefore is not available for import in the GUI.
It is possible to force it to import from the CLI, but someone more experienced than I would hopefully chime in.

 

[m0nkey_]

From the shell run the command zpool import and it will display a list of available pools to import. Paste the result here.