i was checking on my server remotely maybe a week ago when i saw some error that amounted to, the server couldn't find the boot drive. i wasn't anywhere near where i could do something about it for several hours so naturally i forgot about it.
Flash forward to yesterday when i power my server down to fiddle around with it and it won't come back on. The little flash drive is no longer a proper boot device.
Eventually i got another boot device up and going(where did all my flash drives go anyway?) pulled a trial key so i could get back up and going, and found the backup i had made of the original boot device, waaay to long ago. Copied it to the new boot usb, rebooted, naturally it says my license key is bad but at least things are setup more the way they are supposed to be. Deleted the license key, rebooted, new trial key, array started, everything seems...ok, except that now i can't update any of my containers, and my vm won't start.
I'm guessing the backup of my boot drive was long enough back that i don't have the images for the containers?
How do i get those back?
I've got two proper small sized usb drives in the mail so i guess i'll stick to the trial key until those come in and then i'll transfer my license to one of them.
anyone else have anything like this happen? I thought the flash drives were really unlikely to fail because of the nature of UNRaid loading straight to RAM and then basically leaving it alone?