lakerbryant
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- Jul 27, 2019
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Hi, I have had my FreeNAS setup for quite some time now and have not really done any updates to it since it was always working. I am running 9.10 right now. I have one flash drive as a FreeNAS Boot Drive and another flash drive setup for PLEX media server and its jail (guessing this is the flash drive with all my metadata and plugin installation). I have four 6 TB drives in a Raid for my actual data. My flash drive with the PLEX stuff on it is now showing Critical Error in the alerts as well as degraded so I figured its time to replace my flash drive. My goal is to replace or redo from scratch (Not sure whats better) the flash drive for the PLEX plugin and jail as well as replace my FreeNAS boot flash drive since its old too with the latest 11.2 FreeNAS. My questions are:
Can I install FreeNAS 11.2 on another flash drive and remove my flash drive with 9.10 on it? Will it recognize my Raid volume that was setup in 9.10? Whats the best way to update the FreeNAS OS plus replacing the physical boot flash drive?
I would also want to mirror the new FreeNAS boot drive so if one ever fails I can pop in a new one and I'm good to go (if that's how boot drive mirroring works)?
Whats the best option for the degraded or failing PLEX Flash Drive? It has 8 GB of data which is most likely metadata. Make a new one from scratch after going to 11.2? Or is there another way? I tried resilvering but it was going about 0.01% every 2 minutes which was gonna take 14 days and got errors in the middle of the resilver and restarted the whole thing after 1 day.
Can I install FreeNAS 11.2 on another flash drive and remove my flash drive with 9.10 on it? Will it recognize my Raid volume that was setup in 9.10? Whats the best way to update the FreeNAS OS plus replacing the physical boot flash drive?
I would also want to mirror the new FreeNAS boot drive so if one ever fails I can pop in a new one and I'm good to go (if that's how boot drive mirroring works)?
Whats the best option for the degraded or failing PLEX Flash Drive? It has 8 GB of data which is most likely metadata. Make a new one from scratch after going to 11.2? Or is there another way? I tried resilvering but it was going about 0.01% every 2 minutes which was gonna take 14 days and got errors in the middle of the resilver and restarted the whole thing after 1 day.