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I do have other copies, i just wanted to make sure I can rebuild the single data drive if/when it fails. If I understand correctly, unraid can recover any single drive failure, regardless of the total number of drives making up the server, providing the parity is correct.

I have a question regarding data protection. I had a v5 unraid server with 1P, 5D drives with 9TB total storage, ran perfect for the last 5+ years. Recently decided to upgrade to v6.1.3. My storage requirements have also changed and no longer need the 9TB. So, I rebuilt and currently I'm running a single 2TB parity and a single 2TB data drive running v6.1.3. Since the drives are 5+ years old, I don't expect them to last too much longer. Question: With just the 2 drives, can either one be rebuilt from the other? Can the single parity rebuild the single data drive and vice versa? If not, why? What can I do to ensure I'm protected? TIA.

This has definitely been a hard lesson to learn. So I will only use the latest stable releases and not be so eager to use the latest offerings.

Thanks to everyone for your help, When I get home tonight I will try the suggestions mentioned above. @lionelhutz, apparently from your ending post I'm an idiot, so I guess call it a newbie mistake. My household is mainly Mac and I was trying out the AFP shares. If I can recover the data or worst case start over, I will be going with 4.7 or the latest stable release from here on out. I did notice this morning the message at the top of the forums about 5.0b6 clobbering data disks, this would've been nice to know just a day prior. Live and learn I guess...

I should have added, in my troubleshooting I wiped my flash drive and did a fresh install of 4.7. The syslog I have is from 4.7. The syslog is too long to post here. You can view it at http://iwebdirect.com/syslog.txt Thanks again for your help!

Toonight I upgrade to 5.0b6 from 5.0b4, I noticed a tick box on the page and excuse my ignorance but I can't remember the verbage of it, but I thought I was doing right by checking the box and after a few minutes I noticed it was clearing the drives. At 1% I realized it was probably erasing the drives, panicked and initiated a reboot (I was working with it over SSH). Upon rebooting, my 2 data drives showed up as unformatted. I stopped and started the array several times and showed unformatted each time. I SSH'd back in, and nothing showed up under the /dev folder. I manually created a disk1 folder and tried mount -t reiserfs /dev/sdb /mnt/disk1 and received an error trying to mount. I even went as far as downloading a live Ubuntu cd put my drive in an external USB case and tried to browse the disk and it would not mount in Ubuntu either. Am I "screwed", or is there any way to salvage the data on these disks? I'm hoping there's something that can be done. My setup is the free basic version, with 1 - 2TB parity drive, 1 - 1TB drive and 1 - 2TB drive. Thanks in advance for anyone's help.

I know I did, but I don't have access to the GUI at work, and not sure where to look in the command line. I will verify and let you know.

Ok, I SSH'd in and under /mnt I just have disk1 disk2. Shouldn't the User directory be there? If so, do I just create it, and the shares under it? Kinda lost at the moment. thanks!

Thanks Joe for the reply. I'll try that this evening when I get home.

really.... nothing.....nobody? Are user shares gone in 5.0 b2 or am I doing something wrong? Any help would be appreciated.

I'm also not able to create shares under 5.0 b2. I'm running the basic version with 3 disks. Are user shares available in the basic version? I was able to create user shares with 4.5.6.

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