Re-installing the system

[Jeroen]

Hello,
I'm a new to FreeNAS, and I currently have a nice setup with a few jails.
The problem is that I screwed up some of the services like CIFS and FTP (so some very important features for a NAS).
Now I would like to re-install my server, but I do want to keep the files, and jails (the jails work perfect, and took a very long time to setup correctly).
Is this possible, and if so how (and is it recommended to do so)?

 

[cyberjock]

If you plan to reinstall FreeNAS you'll lose the jails unless you plan to restore your config file. Of course, if you are restoring your config file your CIFS/FTP problems will be back. ;)

 

[anodos]

I don't have access to a FreeNAS box right now to test this. I believe FreeNAS uses warden from PCBSD to handle jail management. See warden documentation here: http://wiki.pcbsd.org/index.php/Warden®/9.2#Using_the_Command_Line_Version_of_Warden.C2.AE

See import and export commands. Note that this is definitely unsupported and you may end up breaking jails on our system. When I have a chance I will poke around the GUI. This would be a great feature request.

Edit: A bit of googling and realized it's already a feature request here: https://bugs.freenas.org/issues/3473