I have two questions within this post so please bear with me.
I built my server in 2015 and has faithful served me for ten years using Freenas 9.3. Just this past week, I couldn’t connect.
Adding a keyboard and monitor and booting from the two original USB drives, I can see it does boot, but with considerable errors such as “WARNING: failed to start dhclient” and network address listed as http://0.0.0.0.
I bought two new 16GB thumb drives suspecting the originals were corrupted, to use a boot drives, at least to recover my data. It took me awhile to find a copy of FreeNas 9.3 file (not sure it’s correct) , used Rufas to copy it to a thumb drive and tried to boot it, but it didn’t work. I got a message saying “This is a NAS data disk. You can not boot from this drive.” I think the process I used, did not create a boot drive. My concern is saving my data.
Where do I go from here?
My second question: I know that my setup is ten years old, and I do plan on upgrading to TrueNas, with a SSD as a boot drive. Is it possible to install the latest version of TrueNas and still save my data? I use my server for backing up my documents, pictures, music and I don’t stream movies. I know that my MB is capable of a significant CPU upgrade and I can add another 8GB’s of memory. Would it be worth it to do so, or is my system so outdated, I should be looking for a new MB too?
Here is my current setup:
Case
- Lian Li case PC-
Motherboard
- Tyan S5533 mini ITX Motherboard
Power Supply
- ANTEC PS EA-380D GREEN RT
CPU
- CPU INTEL|CELERON G1840 2.8G 2M R 2cores, 2 threads
Memory
- (1) Kingston 8GB 240-Pin DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) ECC Unbuffered Memory KVR16LE11/8KF w/TS Server
Drives (mirrored)
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WD (2) 2TB Red drive WD20EFRX 64M
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WD (2) 1TB Black drive
Boot Drive
- (2)USB Sandisk 8GB SDCZ33-008G-A46 R (existing)