Kong7014 Posted January 6 Posted January 6 How would data be recovered should I need to reinstall software or build a new system? Quote
PsychoWards Posted January 6 Posted January 6 I suppose you mean when your boot drive dies how do you recover your data from your data drives? As long as you have not lost more drives then your pool type can recover from, you can chuck the drives into any Truenas, Hexos (once pool import is supported) or any other OS supporting ZFS, import the pools (the ZFS information are all stored on the data drives) and you can access all your data from those drives. 1 Quote
Ioannis Posted January 7 Posted January 7 On 1/6/2025 at 2:12 AM, Kong7014 said: How would data be recovered should I need to reinstall software or build a new system? TL,DR: As @PsychoWards says, I am also expecting the HEXOS developers to create a tool for importing existing pools, and in the meanwhile if you reinstall HEXOS, as long as your pool is not damaged, TrueNAS will see the pool. My long story below: I am far from an expert, but I already had to deal with that, by doing what @PsychoWards describes above. Warning, below is not a guide, bur rather an account/journey of my exploration. After freshly installing HEXOS, I happened to get an error on my storage pool and Since my storage did not had any data at that point plus I did not know how to remake anew the storage pool (actually it is easy through HEXOS, but I was stupid back then) so I decided to reinstall HEXOS Now because of an error (which unfortunately I did not record so I cannot shared with the developers) HEXOS although it could see my drives, it could not make a new pool from them, without any explanation I decided to goof around, and I went to the TrueNAS interface - since I had nothing to lose anyway to do that, you go to you HEXOS settings, https://deck.hexos.com/settings and then I selected TrueNAS. It's quite obvious the "connection to the site is considered not secure", so you need to go advance options and select to procced to the page anyway On the TrueNAS logging screen Username: truenas_admin Password: <here you need to use the password you set up during the installation> Going forward, I suggest you search for real guides on TrueNAS. but since you are here, that's what I did. I went to Storage - https://<your server's ip>/ui/storage and among the options there, you have "import pool" and "create pool" You would need to go "import pool" and follow a proper guide - I went for "create pool" and tried to make a new pool TrueNAS gave me a wardning when I selected the drives, that there was already a pool there, so even there I got a warning of an existing pool now in my case the journy ended there, because Truenas could not create a new pool, but this is related to the error I mentioned before, the one I stupidly didn't recorded. in your case, you would not have this problem. TrueNAS would see your pool, and (i assume) by importing it you would be able to get all your data back 1 Quote
PsychoWards Posted January 7 Posted January 7 @Ioannis pretty much spot on, you would just select import pool instead of create pool in Truenas. Quote
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