Hi, I can’t connect to my TrueNAS scale server anymore, not even through the webGUI due to me being stupid. It seems like I need to do a full reinstall and I’m very paranoid about losing data. What do I need to do so I can reinstall truenas without using data? Do I need to export my pools? I don’t want to save my config, since it seems to be totally broken. Thanks in advance.

  • jh0wlett@discuss.tchncs.de
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    11 months ago

    I’m not sure exactly what your setup is, if you have data in the OS pool that might be gone, unless you can boot the system from a stick and mount that disk to copy data over. Zpool export isn’t strictly necessary.

    If your data is in a different pool then it should be theoretically easy to just import that pool in a new install.