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Okay, still fighting this and no one seems to have an explanation. I have two computers in our shop. Both are running OSX High Sierra 10.13.6. On Unraid, I have two shares, identical to each other except in name. Each one is a Time Machine share for each computer in our shop. The entire array is 4TB, each share is set up to limit the Time Machine to 1TB. Shop machine 1 Time Machine window shows 792GB of 1.0.5TB available. Shop machine 2 Time Machine window shows 931GB of 4TB available. I don't know why one share is displaying the available space correctly and the other one is not. I tried deleting and re-creating the shares, same thing happens, so recreating the shares had no effect. Further testing has shown that it doesn't matter which computer is attached to which share, it is always the first created share in Unraid that displays the wrong value, the second share always displays correctly. This eliminates the cause of the problem being either of my two different computers running the same OS version. This has to be an Unraid problem at this point.

That is what I said I was doing.

Well, you have a different perspective. In my experience, software is 99.99999% attributed to crashes. We shall see. I am re-installing everything on another server that is exactly the same hardware with a new USB.

Bottom line, I am STILL down. Is there a step-by-step guide somewhere as to how I can recover the configuration I have on the flash drive I have. That is still reading fine.

I wish I could believe that. Except the Unraid configuration is running on the exact same hardware/conflicts that my openmedia server is running, without issue. Nice try.

Still down, no fix in sight other than to restart from scratch and hope my data is still there. Fortunately for me, I don't rely on Unraid as my primary backup solution. I have the USB drive that reads, still shows all the unraid files, just won't boot. Maybe I'm too much of a rookie to know what to do next from renaming or manipulating the existing files to make it work again. Yes, something appears to have gotten corrupted. Yes, it was a hard power down. My point is still the same, I have other NAS servers running that do not exhibit failure under that scenario. If Unraid fails under those conditions, and my others do not, then that still makes my statement true, Unraid is unreliable.

I have been using Unraid for about a year and a half. In that time, it has crashed 4 times. This week is crash number 5. Symptom? Fails to boot from USB drive. Just sits there with a blinking cursor. Have followed all suggestions, only thing that fixes it is to re-install Unraid to the USB drive. Have re-created on different USB drives. Same result. All in all, I have an openmedia server with 12 drives that has not failed in almost 10 years. On the exact same hardware as Unraid. Through thunderstorms, power outages, network, and internet outages. It always comes back. Unraid? Not so much. What is different about openmedia and Unraid? It doesn't require you to boot from a USB drive, which is inherently unreliable. Go ahead and flame me. Tell me how this forum is only supported by volunteers and if I expect more, to pay for support. In 10 years time, I have never had to contact openmedia because it failed to boot or serve our files. This is coming from real-world experience. As I said from the very start, I am not impressed. Most of the software in our data center has been much more reliable than Unraid has.

Unraid version 6.12.8 Have an Unraid server set up with shares for Time Machine backups for two machines in our shop. The server has 4.19TB total storage across all it's drives. The first share is set up with the TM volume size limit set to 1TB. The machine that connects to it for backup works, but the size in TM preferences shows it has 4.19TB available to it, when it should show 1TB available. The second share is setup the same, but it correctly shows 1TB available, but the backups always error out. Not sure how to proceed. Thinking I should try to delete the shares, and start over, but I can't see where to delete a share.

Unraid crashed last month and I have been unable to get it running again. USB creator for Mac now no longer runs on the laptop I was using so have had to move creation to a different machine. I do have a config backup, but I am unable to get a working USB again after multiple tries. I get a "non bootable disk error" every time.

This should not apply to paid licensees.

I should also note that it no longer comes up asking me to boot with UnRaid or UnRaid GUI, which it used to do. GRUB corrupted somehow?

I did NOT change anything. In fact, I had rebooted about 4 times before with no problems. This time, flashing cursor. I really hate inconsistent behavior like this. I checked the "EFI" folder on the flash disk. It is in fact named only "EFI".

Got everything installed and setup. Some minor things not showing up right, so I rebooted the machine. Fresh install , now just sitting at a flashing cursor, won't boot. This is not starting at all well. I have a paid license. Not impressed. Not to mention the captcha just to post this message is OUT OF CONTROL. Sheesh people. The Unraid system looks so good, then to be bogged down with Captcha, then not booting. Not a good start.

Unraid 6 I didn't see a similar case in the documentation, and I do NOT want to damage the contents of the array, so I am asking to be sure...yes, I have backups, but I'd rather not have to go through that. I am migrating from OMV with twelve 3TB hard drives in a Raid 6 configuration. I have successfully booted with the USB of Unraid and can see all of the drives as unassigned. I am unaware of any that are designated as parity drives. My question is simply this...what is the next step? Will Unraid look at the existing array and just figure it out, or do I need to do something special? Sorry for being such a newbie at this...