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On the subject of backups. My server has 28TB capacity. I have 4 x 2TB disks formatted NTFS so I can easily read them on Windows. After my monthly parity check, and my monthly desktop image, I mount the "oldest" disk in the rotation with Unassigned Devices to backup those things I consider important and/or irreplaceable. It all fits onto a single 2TB disk. I store the 2 most recent offsite. The rest of my server contents I don't worry about, it isn't important enough and can be probably be replaced if I care to.

In the diagnostics, this is found in system/ethtool.txt. You should take a look at your diagnostics sometime. It is text files that you can read, and some of those correspond to the settings you have made in the webUI. Also SMART for all disks and syslog is included.

Why are you ignoring this? Do you know what you have done to allow this? Do you know how to stop it?

Not sure how I missed all this excitement. I'm curious though about the outcome. Why was there nearly a month after johnnie's last instruction and OPs next post? Did you get your array going again? I assume disk2 data was lost. User error is the most common cause of data loss.

Does it have to be web? Unraid v6.8 has WireGuard VPN builtin and many of us are using it successfully to access our shares as if we were on our local network.

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Simplest to just always Go to Tools - Diagnostics and attach the complete Diagnostics zip file to your NEXT post.

The warning for UD+ mentions filesystems which require UD+ and filesystems which don't, but it doesn't mention NTFS at all as one of the filesystems that does (not) require UD+. I expect NTFS is a fairly common filesystem to use with UD (the only one I use), and as far as I know it doesn't require UD+ Also a typo, it says HSF+ instead of HFS+

This thread is a few months old now. It's unclear whether you have the same problem or not. Sounds like you might have corrupted Flash. Do you have a backup of Flash?

Have you done memtest?

If not failing, at least corrupted. You said you hadn't bothered to make a backup yet. Did you also not bother to checkdisk?

It's pretty clear that something happened with your flash drive or your docker templates wouldn't be missing.

Were you able to make any sort of backup of flash in your PC? Prepare flash as a new install and restore the config folder from your backup.

Your docker templates are stored on flash. Without those templates, you can't manage those dockers in the webUI.

As long as you don't assign a data disk to a parity slot then it is safe.

When you press the power button, Unraid has some tasks to perform before it can shutdown. If the array is started, it has to stop any running VMs and dockers, then it has to sync to flush any buffers and ensure parity is up-to-date before allowing the computer to be powered off. Have you tried Unraid yet? You really just need to work from the webUI. Later you can tinker at the command line if you need to do some more complex file management or something, but the webUI is where you mostly need to be. As mentioned, Unraid is not a full-blown linux OS, and you shouldn't try to use it as one. It is just a NAS with VM and docker hosting. From the webUI you can install a linux distro in a VM and use that VM as a general purpose OS.

That photo you took in GUI mode is actually the webUI, but on the "localhost" it is able to access it with the "loopback" IP 127.0.0.1

Try putting flash in your PC and let it checkdisk. That may not get your disk assignments back, but it might fix something. While you have it in your PC, make a backup. You should always have a current backup of flash. All of your settings you made in the webUI are stored in the config folder on flash. As long as you have that, you can always restore that config folder to a new install and you will be going again. Any time you make any significant changes to your settings you should get a backup of flash. This is especially important if you make any changes to disk assignments (add, replace, remove). You can always download a zipped copy of flash at Main - Boot Device - Flash - Flash Backup. After you get that backup made on your PC, try again, and if necessary, reassign disks.

Do you have a backup of flash?

Your questions and comments make me wonder if you really have any idea what Unraid is. Have you looked at the Product pages linked at the top of this page?

Post new diagnostics.

But why Unraid instead of some real Linux distro? Unraid isn't intended to be a general purpose OS. It is basically a NAS operating system with support for VMs and dockers. Underneath it is a stripped-down and customized version of slackware Linux. It isn't really even a multi-user OS in the general sense. Only root has access to the command line and webUI. It is designed to be managed from its webUI. The users you can create in the webUI are strictly for the purpose of managing access to the NAS storage over the network.

On mobile now so can't look at Diagnostics yet. Have you done memtest?

Go to Tools-diagnostics and attach the complete Diagnostics zip file to your NEXT post.

What do you plan to use Unraid for?