SOLVED Question about config file and FreeNAS reinstallation

[traderjay]

Thanks to all the helpful folks here, my FreeNAS passed the 1 year milestone today running flawlessly. In between, I had to replace a failed drive in a pool and it went without a hitch following the documentation. I recently acquired a pretty cheap HGST SLC SAS Enterprise SSD and would like the migrate my boot drive to that SSD for improved long term reliability. The current boot drive is running off a el cheapo consumer grade OCZ SSD that is unfortunately 20GB Bigger than the enterprise SSD. I guess the only way is to reinstall FreeNAS and restore from the config file.

I did quiet a bit of customization especially for the plex media server and I am worried that reinstalling means having to redo the config from scratch - or does the config file ensure a 100% identical backup of the system?

Any other ways that I can migrate the boot?

 

[Jailer]

Save a current copy of your config. Reinstall FreeNAS and upload your config. When you reboot it will be retored to its previous state.

 

[traderjay]

Save a current copy of your config. Reinstall FreeNAS and upload your config. When you reboot it will be retored to its previous state.

Thanks for the reply - Will this create a carbon copy of my existing system with everything restored? INcluding my PLex Media server settings ?

 

[danb35]

Yes, all the settings will be restored. The only thing that wouldn't be restored would be encryption keys, if your pool is encrypted.

 

[traderjay]

Thanks all this worked flawlessly! Still hard to fathom at how easy it is to restore the system and the resiliency. While upgrading the HDDs, I did some cable management to tidy them up and accidentally left one SATA drive UNPLUGGED. Upon restoring the config file, I immediately got a ZFS Degraded warning and my heart skipped a beat. Checking over the cabling I discovered my mistake and plugged it back in and now everything is up 100% with double redundancy on the boot drive :)