I heard about TrueNAS a few days ago and hadn’t heard of it before then. I installed it on an old machine , I was a bit short of SATA ports so I used an old USB Stick as a boot drive and put TrueNAS Scale on there. It’s a good machine with a Realtek NIC and some old CMS hard drives. I thought I’d put all my critical data on there as Youtube videos said it was really bullet proof. I did see how much usable space was wasted with RAIDZ1,2 & 3 - so I just striped 2 drives (Pool1), and then another 2 drives stripe (Pool2) to receive replications.
Problem is, one of the drives has failed on Pool1 and even though I’ve replaced the drive, I can’t access my critical data any more. I thought that Snapshots would help, but there’s no option to restore one? I was hoping to replace the faulty drive and then restore a recent replication from Pool2 instead…problem is that I enabled encryption and put the keys in a dataset on Pool1 that wasn’t replicated to Pool2.
I’m gutted that one of the hard drives failed so quickly, I was planning to do some SMART tests in a few months and then perhaps do a LONG one every year and a SHORT test every 2 years. Perhaps I should have done them before the install?
I wonder if it’s something to do with the power cuts I get around here, it’s hard shutdown the machine a few times a day since the install.
Anyway, hope you can help
P.S. April fools.
Me trying to be funny, to compensate for my lack of tech knowledge!
Crikey bud, you had me going there! I was reading this thru, thinking “Chris has been truenas-ing for years…” And “raid is for uptime, not backup; raid0 is for sadists” and “why not copy the encryption key to a passphrase vault like bitwarden” the you got me at the end… Well done sir!
Will do - the washing machine is about to turn on for some whites, so I’ll put the HDD’s in with them. I think our washing powder is made with Environmentally Conditioned Chemicals (ECC), but I’ll have to check.
@ChrisA it sounds like you haven’t properly exorcised your computer. Until the black smoke comes out I fear that you will continue to have problems and sink more and more money into this endeavor.
