Help moving FreeNas Drives to new Computer

[ItsJacob]

so i have 2 old desktops one is running freenas and the other is just a windows one. the freenas machine is in a bigger box and i am in a situation where i want to move it into the windows box. they are old dell optiplex desktops so i cannon change out the motherboards. so pretty much i want to move my drives over to the smaller box, can i just move everything and just boot from the usb again or do i have to go through the whole setup process again. please help

[leadeater]

Yep should be able to, if your using the same USB/FreeNAS installation you might not have to import the volume, if you do see 8.1.6 in link below.

https://doc.freenas.org/9.3/freenas_storage.html#import-volume

[dalekphalm]

I can confirm that importing ZFS pools from a previous install works very well. If you have the drives plugged in while installing, the configuration wizard will walk you through the import.