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[airborne spoon]

I've had this install of truenas for about a week and today it took a shit on me. It loads to the error screen and hangs. Brand new SSD also, if I reinstall I'll use a new crucial one as this inland professional SSD seems to be trash

 

If I do a fresh install of truenas will my current raid pool be recognized or will I lose all my data?

 

[RONOTHAN##]

24 minutes ago, airborne spoon said:

If I do a fresh install of truenas will my current raid pool be recognized or will I lose all my data?

You can keep all your data, though unless you made a backup file some stuff like your permissions can get screwed up. You should just have to go into the storage tab and click something along the lines of "Import Storage Pool" and be good to go, but I haven't tested that feature with TrueNAS and you might have to do it through the command line. ZFS (the filesystem that does the RAID and everything) is very reliable and has a ton of features, including the ability to be imported and exported fairly easily. If you can't get TrueNAS to work on that system (my server was running TrueNAS up until a week ago when it did the same thing, and after 3 reinstalls and 2 different SSDs, I ended up with 3 different error messages each time), you can switch over to a different operating system like UnRAID, ProxMox, Ubuntu Server, vanilla FreeBSD, etc. TrueNAS definitely has the best GUI for configuring the ACL and ZFS configuration, but doing all that stuff through the command line isn't crazy difficult. 

 

Also for reference, my TrueNAS install borked itself, and I installed a different OS and still got all the data imported with one command.

[airborne spoon]

4 minutes ago, RONOTHAN## said:

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different operating system like UnRAID, ProxMox, Ubuntu Server, vanilla FreeBSD, etc. TrueNAS definitely has the best GUI

 

Also for reference, my TrueNAS install borked itself, and I installed a different OS and still got all the data imported with one command.

Thanks for that. I'll give it a shot and see what happens. I used to use freenas for over a year, but I upgraded to 10g fiberoptic and the card wasn't working with freenas so I upgraded my storage at the same time and everyone said truenas is same same but different and better and still free.

 

 

[RONOTHAN##]

1 minute ago, airborne spoon said:

Thanks for that. I'll give it a shot and see what happens. I used to use freenas for over a year, but I upgraded to 10g fiberoptic and the card wasn't working with freenas so I upgraded my storage at the same time and everyone said truenas is same same but different and better and still free.

 

 

It is the same thing, it's the same developers, it's just that they got tired of having two versions of the same OS (TrueNAS used to be their enterprise solution, and FreeNAS was their consumer version) with double the testing and double the cost, so they combined the code bases (more or less) and just made TrueNAS free with some extra, more enterprise focused features that were never in FreeNAS requiring a license to use.

 

Mine was running rock solid for about 6 months before it just one day wouldn't boot, and rather than go to the forums and hope there was some FreeBSD god to help me figure out why it was doing registry dumps on boot, I figured I'd switch to something Debian-based since the server I'm using only officially supports FreeBSD 9 and while it should work, the official Linux-based support is much better, so I'd eliminate a hardware issue, and Debian is just what I'm most comfortable in. The distro I chose was ProxMox since it has amazing virtualization support and I'm too cheap to pay for UnRAID. As an actual NAS operating system, I'm not impressed, since everything outside of virtualization is manual, but running a bunch of containers and virtual machines is awesome on this. The only two things that I wished it had was a GUI control for docker containers (currently it only supports LXC, which while great, aren't as prevalent or widespread as docker, so you're stuck with the CLI to manage those) and a GUI option for creating network shares and editing the ACL. Both of those things can be done through the shell, but it would be perfect (for me) if it did.

 

It might be a good idea to look at TrueNAS Scale if you can't get TrueNAS Core to work. It's still in beta (the main reason I'm not running it), but it checks all the boxes above for me, though the overall virtualization interface could use some work (again, it's in Beta, so it might get better, it might not). If you're fine with a few bugs in your software (there aren't any "all my data is gone" bugs to my knowledge, it's mainly things like backspace is intermittent in the CLI) and you want a GUI for controlling network shares and the ACLs, it's Debian-based and a really nice distro to use.