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That did the trick! Didn't occur to me that my new USB may also be bad, but third time's the charm! It worked immediately with my first method of simply copying over my backup and running make_bootable.bat. Whew! Thanks for the help!

I just wiped the flash drive and tried again. This is what I get with those options:

I've had an unRAID 6.6.1 server running without intervention for years, but the USB drive just died on me. After confirming the old drive was physically dead, I set about trying to restore to a new but identical USB drive. My backup is just a folder I copied over from the /FLASH share using Windows. But I can't figure out how to get that properly restored. The machine either doesn't recognize the boot device or I get a Linux boot error. I've tried the following: format USB FAT32, label UNRAID, copied the contents of /FLASH over and ran make_bootable.bat which reported success zipped the folder and used Unraid.USB.Creator.Win32-2.1 to "restore" it used Unraid.USB.Creator.Win32-2.1 to install the current stable build and just copied my /config folder over afterward manually installed the current stable build and copied my /config folder wondering if the current build might be somehow too new/incompatible (my server probably predates UEFI), tried to track down an actual 6.6.1 installer but had no luck with that Nothing has changed on the server which was working fine until the USB flash drive died. All the other drives look fine. How do I get my old 6.6.1 configuration restored and activated? I searched here, reddit, and Google, and haven't had any luck so thought I'd send out an SOS. Thanks for any help.

Thanks for clarifying the script selection, and I really appreciate you offering us this functionality. How about my main question: is Preclear now integrated with 6.2? If not, why did it disappear from Plugins (but still appears functional under Tools) when upgrading from unRAID 6.1 to 6.2 and what action do I need to take?

After upgrading to unRAID 6.2 from 6.1 (did not install any betas), Preclear disappeared from the Plugins page, but does appear under Tools. It also offers a choice of script (gfjardim or Joe L.) Is this the expected behavior and it's just built in now? What's the difference in scripts? I've been reading through various beta threads but couldn't find a definitive answer, so I figured this was the place to ask. I just need to know if I need to do anything else before running my next preclear. Thanks, and sorry for what's most likely a question that's already been answered... somewhere!

I have an AVS-10/4-X-7 and really love working with it. http://i.imgur.com/hM8JRgi.jpg[/img] My other unRAID box is a truly horrific frankenstein of hardware with overheating drives, and I just want to know if it would be possible to purchase a case like the above to transplant everything into. Preferably with the iStarUSA drive cages like in the photo above although I can purchase those separately if needed. I have all of the innards already, so I'm just looking for a case. If that's not available, does anyone else have a recommendation for a case with this type of bare-drive cage (the more the better)? Doesn't need to be a rackmount case.

After more than a week of uptime, suddenly all shares stopped being visible on the network. No other issues were apparent other than a bunch of errors in the system logs. All webGUI interfaces looked normal and I was able to perform a clean reboot from the Main screen each time. No additional problems or errors logged since the second reboot, but I'd like to know why this happened so I can prevent it from happening again. I have full diagnostic dumps prior to each reboot, but I'm just posting the relevant sections of each system log for now so I didn't have to go through and sanitize the whole thing. No events were recorded leading up to the first lines; in both cases the errors happened out of the blue. Both times it went offline I was copying a large number of files from the unRAID box to another network machine (most of these files were still on the cache drive). Plugins (all up to date): unRAID Server OS, Dynamix webGUI, Dynamix Active Streams, Dynamix Cache Directories, Dynamix Local Master, Dynamix System Statistics. Cache drive is a single SSD volume formatted XFS. unRAID Server Pro version 6.1.3 on LimeTech AVS-10/4-X-7 hardware. Anyone have any ideas based on these two log excerpts? Thanks! EDIT: added process list from each diagnostic dump FINAL EDIT: The cause was determined to be a bad RAM module; replaced and it's been 100% for 6 months now. syslog-20151016-1202.txt syslog-20151016-1245.txt ps-20151016-1202.txt ps-20151016-1245.txt

I just reinstalled the latest version and the extra drive disappeared. Yay! Thanks for the great work, gfjardim!

Still seeing XFS cache drives show up under unassigned devices (redundant to the usual Cache Devices section). Is there any way to hide these?

Since the September 04 update, both BRTFS cache drives are showing up under Unassigned Devices. One shows unmounted with 13 open files and the total cache size, one shows mounted with sharing on but no used/free data. Does this indicate a problem with my configuration? Everything else seems to be working fine, and I just did a clean install for unRAID 6.1.0. If it's just a plugin bug, I'll just be extra-careful not to touch those settings so I don't screw up my cache. Thanks for the work on this plugin; it's been very useful!

I'm new to unRAID, and was really glad to find this thread and learn I'm not the only one experiencing inexplicable BTRFS pool corruption. I've switched to a single XFS drive for the cache and it's been stable so far. I was originally using two 1TB SSDs which would work fine for a day or three until the logs suddenly started spamming BTRFS errors and the cache pool would eventually report unmountable. After troubleshooting everything else in the chain and rebuilding multiple times, I'm glad to finally have a possible fix, even if it means a little less redundancy. One hint: you have to set your cache device count to 1 before it will let you choose a different disk format. Took me too long to figure that out!