How To Migrate From TrueNAS CORE to TrueNAS SCALE

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⏱️ Timestamps ⏱️
00:00 TrueNAS Core to TrueNAS Scale Upgrade
02:08 TrueNAS Core Backup
04:12 Install TrueNAS Scale via USB
05:20 Testing TrueNAS Scale
07:00 Replication & Cloud Tasks Conversion
07:58 Final Thoughts

#TrueNAS #TrueNAS Scale #TrueNAS Core

[AaronWeissRocks]

Very relieved that the conversion from Core to Scale isn't complicated and is well-thought of by ix systems. Still will wait for the final release plus a few updates to ensure maturity in Scale. Thank you for this video.

[keithj]

Just did a migration on my home lab and it worked well running TrueNAS-SCALE-22.02.0.1 on R710 with a H700 controller and no issues at all, thanks for the video love your content even though you talk at 100mph, but i enjoy all your content

[desertlightning]

This was one of the easiest upgrades I could've imagined given the fact that it's migrating data from entirely different architectures. Thank you so much. I really love BSD and hope to return when I have a bit more experience (and hopefully money). But the features of Scale really sold me on it; primarily when it comes to running game servers. But I didn't want to have to spend hours or days setting everything up again. Sure it probably isn't as stable, but I really needed more out of my server (a decommissioned R720). Especially given that all I was using it for before was a NAS and Plex server.

[hippodackl]

What a great video, Tom! I wouldn't have thought moving to SCALE was that easy. It was, yay!

[jacobnoori]

Thanks, Tom. Looking forward to more TrueNAS Scale coverage.

[damienbutt]

FYI, for any users virtualizing TrueNAS, the upgrade path did not work for me. When you choose the upgrade path there are two different boot options, I tried both but both threw exceptions and failed to install. After that I had to do the fresh install which worked fine. Restored the config from the backup file and everything was up and running.
Just make sure you have that backup file!

[jamesklinger]

Great video, I followed your instruction and it was flawless. Likely the easiest upgrade of anything I have ever done!

[UnderEu]

That was so smooth! Can't wait to see the "jail migration" video - I'd be nice to have specific tutorials for Plex and Nextcloud setups (which is the jails I currently run on my home system).

Also, can't wait to SCALE to reach the STABLE release.

[sam_sheridan]

Thanks for this, interesting that the migration is so straight forward (not taking jails in to account); great job by iXsystems on that. Thanks!

[EduardoReyesDPM]

Excellent review as always if you get the chance please show how docker works with scale.. that's prob one of the biggest reason scale exist imho

[basicnpcc]

Thanks mate, I just migrated over. Still works exactly as the video described.
I had some issues with supported hardware on CORE, and it works perfectly fine on the Debian-based SCALE.

[ystebadvonschlegel]

unraid user, wanting to get onboard truenas scale when it’s stable - keep em coming!

[Cmputerguy]

Used this as agood. It was super helpful. But never had to do the USB I was able to do the upgrade/migration through the console. Super easy and it just works.

[craiglawrence]

Went from truenas core to scale today on a dell r420 with 96g ram and 4 6tb sas drives, zfs giving me fits, same drives on core no issues. Fresh install of scale, created a fresh raidz2 pool, two of the 4 dives keep going into degrade mode.... truenas only thing i run zfs on because freenas and core have always been rock soild, open zfs on linux distros just not what its cracked up to be yet.

[TheBeardedLibertarian]

thank god I backed up before the upgrade, once upgraded none of my pools showed up, so I told scale to restore and selected my backup, it then handled the conversion of my pools and when rebooted they were all there.

[oneito]

lawrence do something on the scaleout functions, would like to see multiple systems deployed with trunas scales and all sharing the data, and adding a new device on the pool to get the datat of the new server

[rcdenis]

No luck migrating here. Tried migrating 3 times, restored from backup 3 times, retried migrating 3 times again before giving up and ended up just doing a clean install.

[notpublic]

Gotta take this comment to the forums. So... I hope I remember! :) Thanks Tom

[WOWIMEXCITED]

I wonder what happens to any jails -- I'm wondering if some of the datasets from the jails could be saved.

[no-ebxx]

My fresh install doesn't recognize the pool.. great, a good thing I still have the old SSD with old truenas core install intact.

EDIT:
Lost the 8 TB of data... pool didn't work with original Truenas core also... I'm so happy right now...