hexos Reinstall HexOS

[Mazcuu]

I've got a problem. I've got HexOS NAS up and running (works perfectly as a nas), but it seems like I somehow broke parts of it:

• I can't get Immich to install any more. I installed it, messed with it, and wanted to start again from clean slate, so I uninstalled Immich. Since then it doesnt want to install correctly anymore. It just keeps on deploying. And yes, I've tried everything, read forum posts with similar problems and none of it worked for me unfortunately.
• The updating of HexOS doesnt seem to work anymore. I dont know if it's because of the changes I made on the truenas side trying to get Immich working again, but the hexos dashboard is a bit buggy now and doesnt let me update.

SO, I'd like to start again, reinstall the HexOS on different hardware. But how?

• Should I store all my data only in cloud for a moment, and download it back so I wouldnt need to buy new drives just for the transferring process?
• How do I free the lisence of HexOS so that I can install it on the new hardware?

Have you guys done this before and how did you do it?

[johnt]

Immich keeps asking me for a security token now. I haven’t signed up for GitHub so I haven’t been successful with it either (Ubuntu Server).

[LIGISTX]

7 hours ago, Mazcuu said:

Should I store all my data only in cloud for a moment, and download it back so I wouldnt need to buy new drives just for the transferring process?

Are you using ZFS? If so, you can import a ZFS array into any system that “can speak” ZFS. Leave the data as it is, reformat the boot drive, and then you’d be able to import the zpool into the new instal. You could important the zpool into TrueNAS, or any operating system that has ZFS support. 

[Mazcuu]

On 5/9/2025 at 1:57 AM, LIGISTX said:

Are you using ZFS? If so, you can import a ZFS array into any system that “can speak” ZFS. Leave the data as it is, reformat the boot drive, and then you’d be able to import the zpool into the new instal. You could important the zpool into TrueNAS, or any operating system that has ZFS support. 

How do I know if I am using ZFS? Is HexOS using it by default? And are there any passwords, codes or such that are needed when I import the zpool on my new NAS?

[LIGISTX]

2 hours ago, Mazcuu said:

How do I know if I am using ZFS? Is HexOS using it by default? And are there any passwords, codes or such that are needed when I import the zpool on my new NAS?

It should tell you what the file system is. I am not sure where since I don’t use hexOS, but in TrueNAS it tells you, so I imagine hexOS also would. 
 

Unless you set up pool encryption, no, you wouldn’t need anything to import the pool except the pool itself. 

[Mazcuu]

I managed to make it work. Just installed HexOS on the new hardware, connected the drives and in truenas interface imported the zfs and made shares of the datasets. thanks!