If you use FreeNAS to share files and folders with Windows 10 users, follow these steps to protect the configurations you've spent countless hours setting up.
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How to backup a configuration file on Freenas
In FreeNAS, the configuration file contains all the default and custom configurations you make to the storage server, including network and system settings, users, datasets, pools, shared folders, and more.
If the Network Attached Storage (NAS) box breaks or stops booting, the configuration file can help restore the system or get it up and running quickly on another device, so it's important to back up this information.
In this guide, we will learn how to backup and restore the configuration file on your FreeNAS server. Additionally, we will look at the steps to reset the database that contains the entire system configuration.
