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Oh ok. So a backup should contain what I need to create a new flash drive with my current config manually. Which is what I did while not knowing I was. I checked on my previous backup of the faulty flash drive, and I can see the sames files and folders inside the archive than the one present on the physical drive. In this end, I guess the unRAID tool failed to properly restore the flash backup zip file because of files corruption ? And me manually copying the old drive content to the new one, replacing existing duplicate just finished the normal process. So nothing to worry about ! Thank you JorgeB and JonathanM for the insights, I now know better !

Thanks for the reply ! This is where I downloaded the backup zip file : But I'm kind of reassured and worried at the same time : the config folder didn't contained my config present in the flash backup zip file I downloaded ?

Hi, What I did worked, but it was a weird process from my perspective and would like to know if I might have done something wrong ? tl;dr -> Used the unRAID software to restore a flash backup. Didn't really worked so I copied every file I could from the old->new flash drive. It worked to my surprise, but is it ok ? Long story short : I had a 2Gb flash drive with the Unraid OS and License. Crappy flash drive. Started to got "bread directory" warning from Fix Common Problem, read online that I could be caused by a bad flash drive (although unRAID never failed to start and never crashed). So I got myself a Samsung 32Gb recommended by SpaceInvaderOne on his video about USB drive reliability and got to it : 1 - I downloaded the backup zip file from the flash itself and followed the procedure from unRAID's guide. 2 - Opened the flash utility on my windows machine, put the zip file in, go. 3 - Remove the 32Gb flash drive and put it in the server, same place as the old 2Gb flash drive. 4 - Started the server 5 - The server failed to boot. Plugin a monitor revealed that the countdown to start unRAID OS kept looping back on itself. 6 - Tried to manually press enter to any of the option of the boot menu (safe mode, memtest, etc...) but nothing. 7 - So I plugged back the 2Gb flash drive and, as expected unRAID booted up. 8 - Remove every flash drive from the server and plugged them in my windows machine to compare the folder and files structures. Huge differences ! 2Gb flash drive : 32Gb flash drive : (Actually this picture is a reconstitution, there was other folder there I recall, but no files for sure). So... I just copied the entire content of the 2Gb drive onto the 32Gb one. I clicked "Yes" when windows prompted me about same named files. 2 or 3 files failed to be copied from the 2Gb, I clicked Ignore to carry-on. I didnt noted which file it was as it felt to be pointless anyway. So : 9 - Plugged the 32Gb drive back into the server and.... 10 - unRAID booted like a charm. (My on the floor staring at the screen suspiciously waiting a crash that never came.) Did I made this USB swap right ? Is my unRAID at risk of file corruption or whatnot ? It's been 3 days now and It seem to work just as before, except maybe the UI is kinda slower but that could be due to any other reason as I am aware that unRAID run from the RAM and not the flash drive itself. Thanks for any insight !

About the same question for me, and plus Fix common problems found a new error that is related to this driver : I guess it is now safe to remove it ?