USB stick corrupt / Trouble Importing / Replacing Disk [SOLVED]

[shackrock]

Hey all. I had FreeNAS 8 installed and running (I think 8.02-RELEASE-amd64 is the version I had at the time).

My USB stick, I can only assume (based on other forum threads), is corrupt. I say this because I just freeze on "mounting local file systems:" and it stays there forever.

I used UFS Explorer to copy off factory-v1.db and freenas-v1.db from the USB drive, and I have them sitting on my PC right now.

My question is, can I reload the latest FreeNAS and somehow get that DB loaded back into the stick, so that I can access the data on my 6 HDD's that are set up in ZFS-1? I don't think there's any way to get that data without the info in the FreeNAS database, but maybe I'm wrong. I'm sitting tight until I hear from somebody on how to proceed here....

I wanted to add that I also get the Geometry does not match label error....

[ProtoSD]

Shackrock,

Your data will be fine, you can reinstall FreeNAS anytime on a new stick and boot it up and do an Auto Import and your data will be there. However, if you want you can reinstall FreeNAS, boot it up, "mount -uw /" and copy freenas-v1.db back to /data and reboot and you should have all of your settings restored.

[shackrock]

Shackrock,

Your data will be fine, you can reinstall FreeNAS anytime on a new stick and boot it up and do an Auto Import and your data will be there. However, if you want you can reinstall FreeNAS, boot it up, "mount -uw /" and copy freenas-v1.db back to /data and reboot and you should have all of your settings restored.

Trying this now, I hope you're right! haha. I literally have been freaking out for about 2 hours trying to fix things.

[shackrock]

Ok it found my volume after a few minutes. I clicked import, and it's taking a while - how long should this take? It's been about 20 minutes, no luck yet, just still shows the "auto import volume" screen with the options grayed out (because I already clicked import).

[ProtoSD]

Hmmm, it shouldn't be taking THAT long. Don't freak out. What happens if you do a "zpool status -v" from the command line?

[shackrock]

no pools available...

[ProtoSD]

Ok, now you can freak out just a little

Its possible your config database was corrupt, but the data in your pool doesnt depend on the database. Try a clean install of FreeNAS or possibly a Factory reset, then go directly to Storage-Volumes and do the Auto-Import again, it should happen pretty quickly no more than a minute.

If that doesnt work, post back and we'll try an import from the command line. I'm assuming your settings arent as important as your data

(Yes, I know there arent any quotes or apostrophes where they should be, the bloody forums are jacked up right now....)

[shackrock]

Well, this is a completely fresh install. I didn't save any settings from the last version. So the flash drive was completely re-flashed using the 8.04 img file, that's all...

I just went to factory restore in the settings tab. It freezes on "please wait..." just like the auto import froze after I clicked the button. Is there something wrong with the img possibly??

[ProtoSD]

Its possible, did you use the same flash drive or a different one?

[shackrock]

Its possible, did you use the same flash drive or a different one?

Same drive... It's the only one I have here! haha. I'll reflash once more and try.