JonathanM

No, I removed it. Your username and password were exposed in plaintext for almost 24 hours. You need to change your password. No idea if that will fix your problem, probably not, but if you don't change your password I can almost guarantee someone will start using your account.

Change your PIA password!

Suggestion, add a popup confirmation stating something to the effect of "Formatting the disk will remove the clear status, and Unraid will have to go through the lengthy clearing process AGAIN if you want to add this disk to an empty data slot of a parity protected array. New Unraid data disks must NOT be formatted before adding them to the array. Are you SURE you want to do this?"

Instead of trying to do everything at once, I'd advise working with one at a time, rename the appdata folder for the most important container, see if it starts properly with a blank slate. It's possible we are dealing with something else, and the permissions are a red herring. Do you have backups of appdata anywhere? Maybe old copies? Why was the change made? Were you trying to fix something that wasn't working prior?

Try completely redoing the flash drive, the same way you set it up to begin with, and copy the license key file into the config folder.

Have you started each container to see what works and what doesn't? Some containers probably won't care, so no need to fuss over it if it works.

Back up the flash drive, delete everything in the config folder except the license key. That won't directly erase any of the data or pool drives, but it will reset the rest of the configurations. If you want the data and pool drives empty you will need to format them as well.

Tools, Diagnostics.

Nobody is born with knowledge, it all comes from experience and learning. As long as you don't ask the same question again in a month. 🤣

Possibly, but why not do it the normal way of using the array drives to temporarily store the data? Every added complication introduces risk to your data.

The swag container was originally known as letsencrypt, before the people running the letsencrypt service objected.

Without the diagnostics file, your description of the issue makes no sense. Having a corrupt unmountable filesystem is one issue, having a disabled drive is another. The two conditions aren't directly linked in how you deal with them, and doing it wrong can guarantee lost data.

You will need to set up a linux VM and pass both disks through to the VM, then mount them there. Unraid removes the standard linux software RAID module and replaces it with the parity array special sauce.

I would like to see the new config page have the addition of a flash backup link, where the apply button for the new config wouldn't be activated until at least a drive list and super.dat file was downloaded to the browser. A full flash backup would be ideal, but just the super.dat file would be helpful.

Do you have a flash backup from before you set the new config with all your current drives?

Different IP addresses.

Nah. Last I looked several of my drives still in service have rolled over. Here's a couple samples of stats. A different drive, must have an extra digit in the hours meter. another couple.

https://www.efax.com/pricing Fax needs access to a telephone number or exchange somehow. Not sure how you are expecting to accomplish that from Unraid.

Disk settings, Enable auto start. Unless you have encrypted drives, in which case you will need a bunch of extra work to enable auto start, and some security considerations as well, since the whole point of encryption is to not allow unauthorized access to the data on the drives, and auto start negates that if no one has to enter credentials to see the data.

Here is the info, but it's rather complicated to set up. You would have to set up the connection inside the container, and all your work would get undone if you updated it. If you look at the work binhex has done with his VPN enabled containers you could probably adapt that, and author your own container. https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/helpdesk/kb/articles/manual-connection-and-port-forwarding-scripts

so what happens if you shut down the one you are testing with and run the tests in the 2016 old VM?

Use the nextcloud container console.

Remove the plugin and retest.

Assign both drives to a pool, then follow the instructions to convert to RAID0. https://wiki.unraid.net/Manual/Storage_Management#Change_Pool_RAID_Levels

No. Intel motherboard RAID is not really hardware RAID, more a hybrid software / hardware combination that requires OS support. Unraid replaces the standard linux RAID that would support intel RST with the proprietary parity array stuff. That's why the only RAID support on Unraid is BTRFS volumes that don't use the linux mdadm RAID system. There may be other options that might work, but I can't recall anyone actually using one with Unraid. If you pass the entire device to the VM it should work. https://www.anandtech.com/show/16141/marvell-and-hpe-introduce-nvme-raid-adapter-for-server-boot-drives