Switching to a new machine

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Amsoil_Jim

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I currently have an established machine running FreeNAS with 6 3tb drives.
I just bought a supermicro server that I would like to put the drives in. I've tested the new machine and already installed a fresh copy of FreeNAS and configured it.
Can I just pull the drives out of the old machine and install them in the new server and then just import the pool?
Will the plugins I was using still be setup as the were on the old machine?
Old machine running FreeNAS version 9.10.2-U4.
New machine- I installed version 9.10.2 and the updated to 11 RC4
 

Robert Trevellyan

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Can I just pull the drives out of the old machine and install them in the new server and then just import the pool?
Yes.
Will the plugins I was using still be setup as the were on the old machine?
Not unless you configure the new install to know the location of the existing plugins. The simplest thing would be to transfer the boot device from the old machine along with the data drives. The second option is to transfer the config database.
 
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