sremick
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- Sep 24, 2014
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Yep, rookie mistake. Was bound to happen some day. Made significant changes without updating my backup of the config (somehow "changing jail" didn't register in my head as something that warranted a config backup), then had some issues with the USB device. It's still mostly readable, so I'd like to recover the config file.
Did a fresh install of 9.10 onto a separate USB boot. Then inserted old USB device and mounted (via instructions I picked up from this thread: https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/recover-configure-from-failing-boot-device.28032/ ). It comes up at /dev/da1. Great. I run "zpool import" to get the ID, but when I tried to import it, it complained that I couldn't because there was another pool already imported with the name "freenas-boot". I managed to rename my old pool on the old USB device "freenas-old", and so now when I run the import command to import "freenas-old" by id, it completes without error, however nothing appears under /mnt (unlike when I was accidentally importing my data drive array, at which point I got "Mainstorage" or somesuch appearing under /mnt with then subfolders for .freenas, jails, etc). So... no errors, but where's the mount? I feel like I'm just doing something rudimentary.
(Plan B if I'm SOL: the only change I made was to my jail. I do have a 9.10 backup from before the jail change. If I could restore using that config, then manually set up a jail and point it to the existing location of my new jail that was created after this backup, I'd be fine and where I need to be).
Did a fresh install of 9.10 onto a separate USB boot. Then inserted old USB device and mounted (via instructions I picked up from this thread: https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/recover-configure-from-failing-boot-device.28032/ ). It comes up at /dev/da1. Great. I run "zpool import" to get the ID, but when I tried to import it, it complained that I couldn't because there was another pool already imported with the name "freenas-boot". I managed to rename my old pool on the old USB device "freenas-old", and so now when I run the import command to import "freenas-old" by id, it completes without error, however nothing appears under /mnt (unlike when I was accidentally importing my data drive array, at which point I got "Mainstorage" or somesuch appearing under /mnt with then subfolders for .freenas, jails, etc). So... no errors, but where's the mount? I feel like I'm just doing something rudimentary.
(Plan B if I'm SOL: the only change I made was to my jail. I do have a 9.10 backup from before the jail change. If I could restore using that config, then manually set up a jail and point it to the existing location of my new jail that was created after this backup, I'd be fine and where I need to be).