As you may have gathered i'm very, very new to FreeNAS. Although I can setup shares and jails etc, my problem is a venture into the unknown and I can't afford for things to go wrong as I could end up losing around 5tb of data.
For over a year my FreeNAS system has been running very stable, however today it appears my motherboard has failed. I was running FreeNAS 9.2.1.8 and luckily I have a copy of the config file saved in a safe place.
My question is can I setup FreeNAS 9.3 as a new install on a larger 32gb USB bootable drive as my previous USB boot drive was only 4gb without affecting the data stored on the 3 drives in a 7tb pool, and then import the 9.2.1.8 config into FreeNAS 9.3 without any problems?
Sorry if this question has been answered before, but I have searched and can't take the risk with the data.
Regards
Lee
For over a year my FreeNAS system has been running very stable, however today it appears my motherboard has failed. I was running FreeNAS 9.2.1.8 and luckily I have a copy of the config file saved in a safe place.
My question is can I setup FreeNAS 9.3 as a new install on a larger 32gb USB bootable drive as my previous USB boot drive was only 4gb without affecting the data stored on the 3 drives in a 7tb pool, and then import the 9.2.1.8 config into FreeNAS 9.3 without any problems?
Sorry if this question has been answered before, but I have searched and can't take the risk with the data.
Regards
Lee