OK, I decided to reinstall Unraid onto the same flash drive (so the id wouldn't have changed). After a couple of failed attempts and watching a youtube video I tried again. Still no go, just a blank drive. I did it again, but this time when it got stuck I just change the USB drive name to UNRAID and it took off and finished. Upon examination, no gibberish! I copied my config file to the drive, put it in the server and now all is well. I was able to create a local backup as well as one on the Unraid site.
I guess the creator needs a little work, or it's just my computer. In any case, all is well. Drives and shares Dockers, etc all good.
Thanks for your help! You kind of led me into figuring something was wrong the the USB drive!
