[Rebuild Docker AppData from appdata folders?]

Thanks for the info on the USB flash drive. The one I had was a NANO drive, and it was very hot to the touch. The motherboard I'm using has nothing but USB3 ports in the back. I have have to check if the front ports are USB3 or USB2. Thanks for your help with the bonus question.

[Rebuild Docker AppData from appdata folders?]

Hello Unraid Community. I have a bit of an issue so let me break it down as quickly as possible;

 

Unraid became unresponsive a few days ago. I did a reboot, things worked fine. Then it happened again and this time it would not boot up. I hooked up a monitor to my tower and saw that files failed checksum and the flash was corrupted. Oh no...

My last flash backup was in May of 2022, and I have made changes to Unraid since then. I know i messed up by not setting up automatic backups and flash backups, but my system was running so smoothly that once it was set, I just forgot about it.

Flash forward to now, December 2023. Flash drive is dead. I tried for 2 days using every recovery method under the sun. The flash drive was read/write locked. Anywho; I at least remembered the drive assignments.

I read through the forums and decided to take action. I created a new Unraid Flash Drive, booted up, setup up a new config, arranged the drives how they were before, started the array. Parity synced fine. All my dockers apps appeared, even ones I deleted a while back. I could not edit any of them, and most did not work.

I read through the forums and learned that I should just turn off docker, delete the docker image, restart docker and start from scratch. When I do this all the docker apps come back but with the same issues outlined previously.

 

Here's my question:

 

Can I backup my entire /appdata directory to another machine....

Then restart from scratch installing each docker container one by one...

Then copy over all the appdata that I backed up and overwrite the new appdata?

 

Would that work? 

 

Bonus question while I have you here: The flash drive that I'm using at the moment is not one that I'm confident with, and I did not retrieve my key yet and kept it in Trial mode. I want to get a better, more premium flash drive first before I commit because to my understanding, you can only transfer your key to a new flash drive once a year. Can you link me a tried-and-tested super reliable flash drive? For context, my old one was a SanDisk 16GB Ultra Fit USB 3.1. Thank you.