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My system is the TrueNAS Mini X with five 16TB WD Red Pro NAS drives in it. I have installed TrueNAS SCALE on it, replacing TrueNAS CORE. I wanted backups, so I set up another system with some EasyStore USB drives I had. Syncing over my network was going to take too long. I
Unfortunately now whenever I reboot my TrueNAS system, it's no longer importing my Equestria pool (internal drives). Anytime I reboot my system, I need to
In short, I attached some USB drives with a pool created on a separate system, imported them on TrueNAS, copied datasets, exported pool, now my system won't mount the original pool on boot anymore.
From what I've read about, the system may be expecting the USB drives to still be attached and trying to import EquestriaBackup from those along with the regular Equestria pool on the internal drives.
I may be worth emphasizing that I did not use the GUI when importing/exporting the drives.
What did I break and how do I fix this? I haven't tried reinstalling TrueNAS but I feel that's unnecessary right now.
zpool export EquestriaBackup
, plugged the USB drives into my TrueNAS system, zpool import EquestriaBackup
, then set up a replication task to copy data from Equestria to EquestriaBackup. A week later I removed the drives, connected to the other system, set up a replication task to work with my remote system, and everything worked.Unfortunately now whenever I reboot my TrueNAS system, it's no longer importing my Equestria pool (internal drives). Anytime I reboot my system, I need to
zpool import Equestria
and then it's back to working.In short, I attached some USB drives with a pool created on a separate system, imported them on TrueNAS, copied datasets, exported pool, now my system won't mount the original pool on boot anymore.
From what I've read about, the system may be expecting the USB drives to still be attached and trying to import EquestriaBackup from those along with the regular Equestria pool on the internal drives.
I may be worth emphasizing that I did not use the GUI when importing/exporting the drives.
What did I break and how do I fix this? I haven't tried reinstalling TrueNAS but I feel that's unnecessary right now.