bilderberger

thanks - this was very helpful - I ran xfs_repair /dev/sdd which apparently wasnt the correct device name. I didnt know it was possible to run xfs_repair from the UI, but now I do its currently running and has found data so hopefully I'm on the right path to recovery. I'll post back here with an outcome - thanks very much! 🙏

I recently moved all my disks to a new motherboard & CPU, to try and improve power efficiency. Unraid seems to have taken to the switch just working fine. The array was comprised of 2x 16TB parity disks and 2x 16TB data disks. While doing the hardware upgrade, I decided to remove the 2nd parity disk and instead keep it as a standby - so I removed this from the array. On a subsequent reboot I noticed that the second data disk was flagged as "unmountable" and that some of the share folders in the array were missing. I had thought that the missing disk contents would be emulated from parity in such a scenario but this does not seem to be the case presently. I ran xfs_repair from the terminal which reported a missing magic superblock and couldnt find the second one. SMART checks on the problem disk all seem fine. The second parity disk is untouched, but presumably since I have removed it from the array already, this doesn't help me, though the most recent parity check should still be valid. To be honest, this is the first major issue involving data redundancy I've encountered with Unraid and I'm not entirely clear what the next steps should be and whether the missing data is still recoverable. Any tips from this sage community would be greatly appreciated.

Sorry for the slow reply, I missed seeing the notifications. the server in question will have native IPMI and the host said they can add a usb so it looks promising for a remote installation

I'm interested in using Unraid to parcel up a colocated dedicated server into multiple VPS running Ubuntu, to use as webhosting servers. I've worked with ESXi to do this but I have grown to hate VMWare and I'd like to see if it can be done with Unraid. Any tips on getting Unraid installed and working on a remote server? Presumably I should be looking at Ubuntu docker?