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Thanks, makes sense. I just wish I knew what the root of the trouble was. All the USB devices went away - not just the flash drive. So far I haven't had any other trouble with the system.

Damn... Started right back up and all the USB devices are working again. Parity check started. Had a bunch of errors scroll by as it shutdown. I suspect because it couldn't find the USB Flash drive that has unraid installed on it. I'll just have to live with another 24 hours of parity check. I just wish I knew what caused the trouble to begin with.

Great - thank you! Have you ever had the boot USB drive (and all the others) just disappear like this? It doesn't matter what USB device I plug in - none of them are recognized. I'm not sure what to blame for the trouble. Its strange because the motherboard has two USB controllers - one for 4 USB 2.0 ports and one for 4 USB 3 ports. None of the 8 ports work when I plug a known good USB drive in.

Thanks for the quick response! So using powerdown won't require the parity check to run again? I ask only because I have a faint memory of using powerdown years ago when the web interface crashed and it required a parity check. Could be that my memory is failing me! Or maybe I used shutdown back then rather than the powerdown script.

I plugged an external USB drive into my server with plans to copy the content to a share. A few minutes later I went to logon to the web interface and it only shows the menu headers - nothing works. In looking into this trouble I found others with trouble because their USB flash drive had failed. In my case - I don't see any USB devices at all using lsub from the command line. I used to see the flash drive and any external USB storage I had plugged in. I first tried the external hard drive on another computer and it comes up just fine there. I then tried my USB Flash drive that has unraid on it and it also works on another computer. Neither show up when I plug them into the unraid server. I'd just reboot but I just finished a parity check yesterday and don't really want to have to start over again. Is there any way to properly shutdown unraid from the command line so it is 'clean'? Maybe a way to reset the USB buses without restarting? Anyone run into this before? Thanks!

Trying to figure out the fastest way to move a bunch of files to an unraid share. I have a few .vhdx files currently on an external USB drive that contain misc files that I need to get to an unraid share. I can mount these on a Windows machine and just copy the files over the network but I was hoping to speed things up by plugging the external drives that contain the .vhdx files directly into my unraid server. The external drives are using NTFS as you'd expect because these are .vhdx files from a Hyper-V server. Any suggestions on the quickest way to get the files moved? Thanks!

Found one and was able to get the 'parameters' set correctly and it seems to work so far. I've got a bit of learning curve on containers and persistent storage. Looks good so far. I've used Unraid for years but only for use as a media server - first stab at containers. I'll post back if I run into trouble and how it finally works out. Thanks again for quick responses!

Oh, great, I didn't realize I could use 'other' dockers. I'll see what I can find. Thanks!

I assume making behind-the-scenes tweaks is unsupported and generally a bad thing to do right? What I'd like to do is configure unraid to be used as webdav server to store off-site backups for a few clients. They are currently using Synology NAS as webdav based targets but I'd like to move at least two of them to unraid so they can take advantage of unraid's features. They are currently maxed out with their Synology capacity and I'll either need to get bigger Synology boxes or get unraid working. I don't see any plugins that will do just do webdav. I could do ownCloud or nextcloud but both bring an awful lot of extra 'baggage' that is unneeded for a basic webdav backup target. The backup package handles encryption and de-duplication before sending the data to the webdav target. Can I or should I go behind the scenes and enable apache with webdav to avoid the extra baggage of ownCloud and nextcloud? Thanks for you thoughts!