[Installing new flash due to old USB Corrupting]

On 2/13/2023 at 4:05 AM, itimpi said:

No - Unraid will not rebuild the drives as it does no know about them since you restored an older backup.

 

What you should do is use Tools->New Config, and select the option to preserve current assignments.    You now go back to the Main tab and add the additional drives Unraid does not know about.   You should also be able to tick the Parity is Valid checkbox to start the array with the new drive set without rebuilding parity.   Having said that I would be tempted to run a parity check to make sure parity really IS valid.

 

BTW:   You can always make a manual local backup of the flash drive by clicking on the Boot Device on the main tab and then selecting the backup option.   A good idea to do this after any hardware change.

I'm also trying to re-build things after what I believe to be an error with a corrupt USB file problem.

I do have a diagnostic file that I created before things went sideways.  Is there any way I can identify my two parit drives, and which is which from the diagnostic files?

If so, where do I start looking ... 🙂

[FAQ Feedback - for FAQ for unRAID v6]

After an unintetional FAQ thread cluttering incident, I've been directed here.

My little bit of feedback is that, it would be nice, if there was a warning notice above the FAQ answer list to tell folks that the links are to the old server, and to you can find more info [here] ... 🙂

["Share is outside the list of designated disks" following using unBALANCE to clear a drive]

Hi folks,

 

I need a little bit of assistance please.  

I want to retire a drive from the array, and once I've done that, I'll install a larger drive as a replacement, and so i've used unBALANCE to move all of the files from the soon to be retired drive.

After running unBALANCE both the drive that I've cleared, and the drive that I've moved the files to are showing as "Share is outside the list of designated disks".

I'm not panicking at this stage, as I'm sure I read somewhere that after moving the files using unBALANCE, the parity data will need to be rebuilt.

However, to be blunt, I am out of my comfort zone with this stuff and I'm nervous about losing the data that I've moved, so please be gentle with me ... 🤣

So, what do I need to do to regain access to the files I've moved to drive 5?

 

 

 

tower-diagnostics-20220312-1819.zip

[A quick hello, and a bit of advice please]

Hey folks,

 

I'm very much a noob when it comes to NAS, but I've been playing around with home computers, and then PC's since the 80's, though my youthful enthusiasm for tinkering has given way to the "if it 'aint broke, don't fix it" mentality, and leaving the more specific areas, like NAS to folks who actually know what they doing ... 😁

I was running freenas until one of my drives started playing up recently, so I was advised to install unraid, and join this happy band ... 😁

I've watched the basic setup videos from Spaceinvader One to the point where I thought I knew what I was doing, but I quite obviously did not.

 

I'm at the stage where I have got the hardware organised, until such time as I can transfer all the data off the HDD and onto the NAS.  With that done, I'll add that HDD to the array.

For the moment, I'm trying to go for a KISS approach, as I'll be the only person with access to the NAS, in the short term at least, and I've broken the array down into a hand full of shares to make it easy to find what I want from whichever PC I'm using.

 

Now that I'm trying to copy the data off the new HDD, I've managed to copy some of the data across, but now one of the cache drives is full, and stubbornly refuses to free up space when I try to run mover.

After playing around with things for a few days (mostly stumbling around in the dark), I've decided to hold my hand up and ask for help ... 😁

As I said, I've just started copying files onto the NAS, so if absolutely necessary, I can wipe the drives and start over.

tia

John

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