If server DIES, can plug the old pool into fresh truenas pc and it will detect it?

[Duhmez]

If mY PC dies, my hexos pc, and the drives are full of data, can I make a new HexOS and just plug the old drives in and they wil detect and be ready to go right again? Or how to do this? I need to know before I commit how to handle this eventuality will deifnitely WIL happen sometime in future.

[Sonic]

@ubergeek, can you share your experience? You moved HexOs already to a new device.

[Jack Kennedy West]

I theory it depends on what fails.

If you have a HBA card to connect your drives then you should be able to put that and the drives into the new PC. Along with the drive that Hexos is installed in and it'll boot up fine.

[ubergeek]

So since HexOs has started I have swapped hardware many times upgrading my system along the way without loosing anything. This includes  Motherboard/cpu , HBA, Videocards ect. The one thing that would limit you from what i read on another post is compatibility with the new parts. But if you keep in mind when you set up a new motherboard youll need to make sure its on non secure boot, and if you go from a cpu with onboard graphics to a computer with out youll need to fill these compatibility issues. SO in the short answer you can swap hardware if needed ,   

[Duhmez]

Sounds good, s if the pc dies, and If my new hardware is compatible, I oucld stuff my old hard drives in and access. If it is anew hexos install on a new pc, then I drop my old drive pool, will it detect and import them? all metadata is on the drives themselves? Or no? Obviously, I will keep backup my my OS drive too but I just want to know all the recovery options, worst case it all dies but the datya drives are all perfect.

[PsychoWards]

We need to distinguish between the boot drive dying and some other HW dying. If something else dies, you just switch HW and you are good to go.

If the boot drive dies or you reinstall hexos from scratch it's a bit different but those 2 scenario are functionally the same thing.

Since Hexos currently doesn't support pool import during installation and is insisting on creating new pools, this currently not that easy to do with hexos.

With Truenas (and hopefully Hexos as well once pool import is supported) it's as easy as it gets.

You just need to backup your truenas config (no need to backup the boot drive), then you just reinstall truenas, you import your config and the system is up and running as if nothing ever happened.

This is working because all the information about the pools and apps are stored on the pool drive itself and the boot drive only contains your config.