How to Upgrade FreeNAS to TrueNAS

Want to migrate FreeNAS to TrueNAS today? It's simple using this step by step tutorial. We'll walk through how to upgrade FreeNAS to TreNAS CORE. We'll cover upgrading FreeNAS to TrueNAS on a physical machine (bare metal) as well as a virtualized install of FreeNAS. We'll prepare our services, jails, plugins, virtual machines, pools, and disks for the migration and then upgrade each. We'll even show you how to do an offline upgrade of TrueNAS and then how to upgrade a ZFS pool with newer feature flags. Finally we'll walk through what's different between TrueNAS and FreeNAS.

(Affiliate links may be included in this description. I may receive a small commission at no cost to you.) Tim Kits:

00:00 - Intro
00:29 - Why Upgrade to TrueNAS
01:23 - Preparing your server
03:20 - Get TrueNAS Core
03:55 - Upgrade Process
05:08 - First Boot
05:40 - Verifying the Upgrade
07:55 - Why TrueNAS Offline Upgrade
08:47 - Conclusion and Thoughts
09:12 - Stream Highlight - Attack of the bots!

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Thank you for watching!

[TechnoTim]

Are you running TrueNAS yet??

Also, hi! 👋 If you're new here, welcome! Be sure to subscribe for more content like this!

[ACTlVISION]

you have a certain intense presence and real talent for condensing long tutorials into a streamlined presentation format with great editing, definitely filling a unique niche and doing good FOSS public service with this channel... keep it up

[Dreamtwisterk]

Awesome! Easier than I thought it would be! I recently found your channel and I've learned so much with your tutorials! I'm a Proxmox newbie and I've been running FreeNAS virtualized. Keep the awesome content coming! Your channel is the best one I've found on the subject!

[CRK]

The last time I upgraded I just disconnected all my storage pools and backed up all my settings, then did a fresh install, and then remounted the pool again.😁 After I understood the process, I realized that the TrueNAS team is make the storage data disk very easily(Of course you have to keep the interface of your hardware like SATA interface, etc.)

[TrueNAS]

This is a fantastic video, Tim! Great content for the #TrueNAS Community!

[machinainc]

I’m really happy you blowing up in the last couple days. You deserved mate.

I just installed Proxmox on an old Laptop to learn things for when i build my server soon. Now on to installing Windows, Ubuntu and Docker on it.

[HiltonPalmaLima]

Thank you very much. Very easy to follow and I liked the off-line upgrade reasoning and approach. I do miss the Shark logo, though!

[bunnxr]

no questions, you're awesome!! you'll definitely grow!

[marks]

Nicely done! Thanks for a very clear procedure.

[ccarlsson]

Clean, quick, informative tutorial. Really enjoyed the video. Miss the shark though.

[merlingt]

You can actually select the shark logo back, it was added as an option for the UI :)

[Fidelity]

Nice vid! This is going to help a lot of people in the upcoming weeks/months

[jeffherdzina]

But, but ...I love the shark! Seriously, I really did. LOL..

[Felix-vehs]

0:53 there is actually a third product, which is TrueNAS Scale. It's based on Linux instead of FreeBSD and desinged to run whole datacenters.

[selfhosted]

Love your content Tim! I’m going to try TrueNAS very soon once I get my hardware sorted out. Do we need anything special? Not looking to use a commercial server for this.

[machinainc]

Man i’m so happy i found you on Craft Computing’s comments. I wanna do so much of the stuff you made/make videos about.

I really wanna build my own server and get deep into virtualisation.

The (first world) “problem” i’m dealing with is i don’t yet know what hardware i’m gonna use to make the server. I don’t want a massive power hungry beast but i’d like something with a few cores.

At first i thought about a massively low power server with something like an Intel J4105 CPU. Only about 10 to 20 watts and the CPU has 4 cores. But after thinking it through i don’t think that’ll be good enough cos i wanna make a gaming server for me and family member to game remotely.

I have a spare Ryzen 1700x but at 105w. TDP i’d prefer the non X version (1700) at only 65w tdp. Unless i tweak the 1700X to make it more like the vanilla 1700 to use less power.

Is mainstreak Ryzen CPUs OK to make a server or do you prefer Intel chips ??

I also have a 6 core 5820K (with an EVGA X99 board) and a 6 Core Xeon for a vintage X58 platform i have collected over the years. But those chips/platforms are even more power hungry than my Ryzen chip.

Sometimes i think i’m overthinking this but want it to be right as i can’t just keep spending more money on hardware so in case i have to buy something it has to be fitting for what im doing.

PS - Obviously instant sub to your channel

[hubertnelzi]

Hi Tim, I need your opinion about "truenas scale", yes it is in alpha by now but i tried it and kubernetes is already out of the box, and docker! I really like you do a preview for us in a near future because it seems to be the future of truenas! It really would be cool as your explanations are always clear and precise! Thanks again for your great jobs!!

[weldonf]

Hi Tim, thanks for the great video. I own an older Dell T410 Server with 6 4TB Ironwolf drives that I have been using for the past 10 years or so with FreeNAS 11.2-U8. I would really like to upgrade to TrueNAS but I am close to 70 and not as technical as you. I know how to use FreeNAS to an extent, but FreeNAS was installed by someone else years ago, and they set up the pools and the jails, ... but they are no longer available to help me upgrade to TrueNAS. My server boots up from a USB Memory stick. If I "Save Configurations" (and make 2 backup copies on my iMac), and then follow your instructions to upgrade to TrueNAS. I would use a different USB memory stick for the TrueNAS installation. Now if something were to go wrong with the installation or whatever, would I be able to recover back to my FreeNAS environment by booting up using my FreeNAS USB memory stick?

[Alphahydro]

Good stuff Tim. Would you consider reviewing TrueNAS SCALE? I know you run FreeNAS virtualized through ProxMox as I do, but I expect considering TrueNAS SCALE will use KVM for virtualization, it would be possible to run it bare metal and transfer VMs from ProxMox over to it.

[deafno]

Pretty decent video with good effort put into it, but you can improve echoy audio a lot with acoustic treatment.