After restoring your TrueNAS Scale configuration to a new system you may encounter the following error on the console:

1The web interface could not be accessed.
2Please check network configuration.

This is due to the new system not having the same NIC/MAC address so TrueNAS doesn't know how to map it's existing IP …

When backing up TrueNAS using the Web GUI, you are provided a .tar archive containing freenas-v1.db as well as pwenc_secret if you chose to back up the system seed. While there is no easy way to automate a configuration backup using the Web GUI, you can achieve the same goal using SSH.

Optional prerequisite: Configure …