 Time here for more systems. This is my true nas core box that I've done some reviews on in the past I'll leave a link to those but it's been running and it usually sits just off and out of screen behind me It runs lots of different things in true nas core now I did a video about true nascale. They're really their latest beta that came out and I really like it It works quite well. I found the stability to be very good I found a couple little things that I don't know have to do with the hardware or have to do with Software problems, but the best way to solve that is to convert this box over to true nas scale And it's pretty simple. I want to walk through the process I've done it before in some demos and This little USB all we got to do is take and load true nas scale on here And we're not going to destroy the data. I know the easy answer is back up all the data loaded fresh It's often what I will recommend people do but of course I want to cover how to do it with existing data so people who are interested in converting their true nas core Over-to-scale can do so. That's what this video is going to be all about leaving the data intact now things We cannot leave intact if you have any jails. I'm sorry They're going away because true nas core BSD jails do not translate over to the way it works in true nas scale The containering system is different So you will have to rebuild those if that's a problem then that's maybe where you stop But for those of you that want to watch this video and follow through on the process of how we set this all up That's what we plan to walk through today But first if you'd like to learn more about me my company and over to Lawrence systems comm if you like to hire sure project There's a hires button right at the top which includes storage consulting and lots of design consulting around sure nas servers If you want to support this channel in other ways There's affiliate links down below to get you deals and discounts on products and services. We talk about on this channel Now on to the project here. So I have the system booted up. This is a true nas mini 3.0 As I said running true nas core 12.05.1 So the version number is the latest version available today in September of 2021 so I just make sure it's up to date and We're gonna go here to system general and what you want to do is save the config pretty simple you should be doing this anyways and There we go Great. Now we've done it. Actually, I'm gonna get saved config, but make sure I also export the secret key That's just the all password keys and secrets are encrypted need to be decrypted. So yes, we want to make sure we have that So I have the full backup There we go Save all right now I have a backup with the C key in there and for good measure I do recommend going over and you should have done this upon creation of the system But in case you didn't just see you have a backup copy of that as well Click on the gear icon and you want to export your dataset keys I highly recommend you always keep a copy of them on there This is one of the things we cannot help with and neither can anyone else if you lose your data set keys And you do not have a backup the encryption they use is really really good And it is not something just arbitrarily verse engineered So you need those keys in order to decrypt this if the things get messed up So it's important that the keys belong to the ZFS pool So it's or sometimes you may have multiple keys depending you've configured it But yes, make sure you've done this and have a backup copy of those always good measure Just do we have those before we erase this boot drive that has this information on it? That's actually where the keys are stored is always on the boot drive and they decrypt the pool So if something happens here boot drive or there's an issue these are things can happen Now next step we're logged into the IPMI of the true NAS scale system and we're just going to do this Obviously not every system has IPMI, but boy is it convenient when they do and I've covered this before I like the IPKVM HTML5 version it's in here and we're gonna go ahead and launch this and we've already got the USB inserted So now we got to reboot the system and from there zoom it out just a little You can see it seen the in there and go ahead and reboot so option 10 Yes, and now we just got to wait for the boot screen to come up And here we are at the true NAS scale installation go ahead and press enter or wait for it to automatically boot It should boot up true NAS scale and bring up the installer Installer upgrade sure Let's go down here to our say to drive where it's installed press enter Upgrade install or fresh install now We can do a fresh if we want because we have that backup Let's go ahead and try the upgrade process that they have here worst case is we come back and Build it differently That took a little longer than expected and it says the installer has preserved your database file true NAS Well migrate this file if necessary to the current format. All right See how long this takes to get that done And let's reboot it All right, the system seems to have successfully converted I have the proper IP addresses and let's see if we can log in go ahead and log in here This is looking good. All right, let's go over here to storage pools The pools are all there. Let's look at the shares go to sharing and Look at the window shares. All right, everything's showing up perfectly fine So let's actually start testing these things and making sure they work because you know showing up and testing Let's make sure everything's good but before we do that I do have some things that are locked to these pools that will have to unlock and We'll go down here and go ahead and unlock these real quick choose unlock These are data sets I have that have past phrases that's why they aren't unlocked as part of the normal system. So That looks promising. We've unlocked one of these data sets Continue great. I have one more to unlock make sure it works go here Here and we're gonna go ahead and hit unlock Pastries in yes. All right Now let's actually do the real test and see if I can get to one of these folders like my video folder on here That's part of the share. So we'll look at the share Show you which one we're gonna go to LTS videos. Let's go to that one LTS videos and hey, look, there's all my videos make sure I can open one of them Like when I did a video on them here for more systems and we're gonna talk about NFS first opened in a different window I didn't drag it over here, but yes, it opened. Yes, it worked. Let's create something in 10 folder new folder test Well, I can read right to it So I would say the whole process was a success and now from here Let's one more time look at the network summary and yeah Here's all the different IP addresses and the different VLANs and it transferred them over as well Now one more thing I'm gonna look at here is under data protection Is the snapshot tasks and the cloud sync tasks and see if those are all still in here and if they work So it even copied over it appears my cloud credentials. So no problem there. That's still configured. So great We have our tasks and let's go ahead and try running one of them here So these are the replication tasks that I have configured and let's try running maybe like this one here Replication has started and That is successful. There's not much data because there's nothing else to synchronize on here I'll have to wait till there's been some data changes and another snapshot created But nonetheless, these are working and been copied over and they're successfully talking to the other servers That's really an important aspect of it is that this all worked now the next steps I need to do is look at creating some jails I actually didn't have any because I had already deleted them be prior to even doing the migration So now I can look at creating some of the containers inside of the new version of tune a scale But overall the process is pretty straightforward pretty simple and it'll be a separate video where I talk about configuring all these things But this is now one more system. I'll add to the pool of testing So I can't guarantee your experience will be quite this smooth But I at least can say that these process generally speaking has gone and it's not the first time I've done this before I did the video with some other demo systems I had built but the process seems to have gone pretty smooth in this case And this is one that I've been using for a while matter of fact This system has survived many upgrades through version 12 when it was beta into the u5 that it's at now And now we're moving over to the TrueNAS scale that's beta So it's got a little history and a little usage on there But pretty simple head over to TrueNAS scale if you want to download it If you want to have more in-depth discussion about this my forums are a great place if you have bugs to report On this YouTube comments are not where you report bugs that you find with TrueNAS scale It is best discussed over in the TrueNAS forums for any bug reporting because it is still a beta product I don't recommend this necessarily for production unless you're an enthusiast like myself And I know at least a few of you are and want to start diving into it to be an early adopter And I'm willing to put the effort in report the bugs and help make this product come to life as a very stable great Add-on for the TrueNAS family a product Core as I said before it's going to be around for a while and scale is a Another cool feature and there's all kinds of new neat things in there that I'm gonna have to do lots of videos on Especially the new way the permission systems works, which is a little different than before So that's all gonna be separate videos on there. The good news is the permission stayed I was able to log into my data set. 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