Hey all,
I'm pretty new to unraid been using it now on a trial for about a week, plan to buy it after the trial but need a little help. I definitely feel as though this is 100% my fault... I'll try and go through as much of what I can remember I did below.
So some days ago before I started fully setting up my VMs and Dockers, I for some reason thought it would be a great idea to remove the bridging configuration of my NIC, so I have the single onboard NIC and a dual 1GB PCI card.
I set up all my dockers, VMs and literally got everything dialed in to where I wanted. Now I was remember I wanted to change that NIC back to bridge mode will all of the NICs or perhaps create a bond. Well I stopped all VMs and Dockers and disabled the services. Made the networking changes and restarted the services.
From the Docker tab:
"Docker Service failed to start."
From the VM tab, there's nothing there now, my VMs are gone. From the virtLog it seems it cannot load the XML configs of the two VMs I have.
From here, I assumed a reboot might help, so I simply clicked the "Reboot" button in unraid, assuming it would do a stop of the array and a graceful shutdown and start up.
Well it took a sec, think there was network IP hiccup but came back up, when it did come back up the array was showing it was improperly shutdown and wanted to do a parity check, I started this but later stopped it as well there wasn't anything writing or reading prior or during and really I wanted to resolve the VM and Docker issue.
I noticed my cache was full, which having some storage knowledge I know to be a good thing, we're utilizing it however I don't know why, maybe the lack of caffeine or sleep or both lead me to believe that because of the cache somehow, Docker couldn't start and my VMs were having issues.
I began to try and clear it or something, I click balance realizing this just sets raid mirror on the two SSDs, I then hit scrub, didn't really appear to do anything (that contributed towards solving my issue) so I decided, I'm done bed time look again in the morning.
Now I've woken up had a coffee and taken a peek, I now see my array is reporting 1% utilization or 286 GB of 24TB, however I know there to be nearly 5TB of data on there, and when I navigate to the share via Windows network I see all my data. This data also appears to be in /mnt/user/<share>/.... but does not appear to exist on /mnt/cache/ or /mnt/disk*/ (well aside from 1 or 2 items.
- Is this due to me cancelling the parity check?
- Should I perform a parity check? or would this cause the writes to parity to delete my data?
- Was this due to the scrub?
- Should I try another reboot?
- Should I spend another 3 days copying that data out of /mnt/user/
- I believe I also ran the mover and cache was set to prefer for the share in question.
I know this is a lengthy post, apologies, but I've spent nearly a week setting this up and building this and just finished moving all of the data from my old NAS and now I'm literally freaking out.
Thanks in advance.
Diagnostic file attached.
tower-diagnostics-20211221-1019.zip