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WHEW! rebuilt the USB, booted up, transferred my license and we're good to go. Much thanks to @DirtyDarrell and @JorgeB

thanks @JorgeB I see all my various docker apps in the \templates-user folder. when my new usb drive gets here I'll create a new boot drive and follow the instructions from @DirtyDarrell

I shutdown my unraid system and decided to sleep on it. Pulled out the USB drive and I've copied an image to my MacOS laptop. @DirtyDarrell I've located the super.dat file but it's metadata shows it was modified AFTER the bad-recovery situation. I went to the cloud backup first but that had already been overwritten. @JorgeB unfortunately i do not. It appears I had to learn this lesson the hard way. Assuming my data drives are still good, what would be the status of my system config? docker and VMs?

@JorgeB most specifically a reboot did not bring my server back to the expected settings. my concern is that a "proper" reboot after an unclean shutdown event may have over-written my settings and configuration

I had a power outage. When my system came back up the name had reset to Tower default and my cache and pool devices were not assigned. Before I did any searching I re-assigned my devices and attempted to start the array, when it didn't work I did a reboot. Now, i realize it is probably just my flash drive but my cloud backup has been overwritten with this most current data. Am I screwed? I have a replacement USB drive on the way, will I be able to restore my config? tower-diagnostics-20250225-2257.zip

It seems to have resolved itself after running for a few days. I'm getting working syncs now with no errors.

welp. after a reboot and restarting the array. it appears to be good. recent diagnostics attached. guess i panicked a bit and didn't think to just restart the system boxx-diagnostics-20230131-1100.zip

I have 2 sata SSDs in a pool "VM" for docker, appdata, VMs etc. this morning it is showing as "unmountable: no file system" I'm searching forums but wanted to post diagnostics here before I take any action. This data isn't un-replacable but it would be a major pain to lose the docker images and app data. but i think I have the data also on my main spinning array..? boxx-diagnostics-20230131-0950.zip

I'm using the icloudPD docker container to download my iCloud photo library. It's working but I am getting a lot of IOErrors. I've attached a sample below. I had thought it was maybe HDD speed but I turned on cache on a SSD and I'm still getting the errors, it doesn't appear they are related to file size either, it will download large videos fine, then fail on a basic .jpg or .heic image.

It was because I was using Safari (better battery life on M1 hardware). Chrome and Firefox both give a normal zip file. Latest diagnostics attached. But I think I got everything sorted. Got docker and VMs setup on a pool of 2 120GB ssds and moved the cache to the 1TB m.2. It's all green lights and the fix common problems plugin also looks happy. Thanks again for your quick response, kindness and help with this @trurl I'm looking forward to digging into unraid more; Home Assistant, network ad blocking and DNS filtering, windows VM for some older games, offsite backups and some personal cloud stuff. boxx-diagnostics-20230119-0831.zip

user error. hadn't really thought of that, but of course, with full read/write permissions to a share a user could just start deleting data diagnostics file was because I use MacOS and safari on my laptop and wanted to get it done quickly. Was the file still functional?

THANK YOU. and thank you for answering with kindness when this is very much a RTM situation. I very much appreciate you help here. I was able to reassign the m.2 drive to the cache and the errors immediately cleared. and I'll put in that second SATA ssd after work today and build a new pool for docker/VMs.

Ahhh.... I see. Is there a recommend size for cache drive? I also have a 1TB m.2 drive in the system and a second 120GB sata drive available, although it's a different brand and age of the other 120GB. What is the best way to get VMs/Docker onto the flash storage? I only have one docker container running right now and I've noticed it doesn't save preferences, each time I launch the app it's like the first time it's run. I would like to use a few more docker apps and a VM at some point. re: "Parity is not a substitute." Parity protects from a single disk failure, correct? I also understand that my server would be vulnerable to physical/geographic issues, fire, flood, theft and plan to eventually back up the entire server to Backblaze/glacier/something. Doesn't the mover service copy the data from all pool devices to the array nightly? Thereby protecting from a single (pool or array) disk failure? Diagnostics attached. I had to re-zip it after the download. If that causes a problem I can post again. boxx-diagnostics-20230118-0642.zip

I have 4x4TB drives (1 parity, 3 data) as my main storage array with a 120GB sata SSD for cache. I followed the basic setup instructions but even after a few days the cache drive is always completely full and my shares appdata, domains and system show as "unprotected". I've RTM a bit but I just don't see what I'm missing. (PS-why is blanking out the serial numbers of a disk something? I don't immediately see how that data could be a security issue, could someone enlighten me?)