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The usb is brand new. Limit?...of USBs that can die? I don't understand.

I had my USB drive die (I hope and pray that that is the problem) and flashed a backup onto a new one...went in to swap the license over and I'm getting this non-descript error... ...I clicked the check box, clicked the button and the error in the top right pops up. Is this a new thing? Anyone else had to deal with this? Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeally don't want my server to be down for an extended period of time...I hope it's something simple...fingers crossed... I reached out to support as well to get that ball rolling in case it's something that needs to be fixed on their end. Any help greatly appreciated.

Uh oh...just noticed 2 drives that were basically full now have a combined ~5TB of free space...whaaaaaaaat...tf...

True. That won't help solve this mystery, though. I'm so curious as to what happened because it's never done this...it's been running for literally YEARS and has only ever been shut down MAYBE 6-8 times for updates, long power outages, etc. Really makes me wonder.

My server just rebooted and I'm not sure why. I checked the log and it looks like it resets when it reboots. Is there anything like the Windows "Event Viewer" in unRAID?...anywhere else I can go try to find out what happened?

Nope. Doesn't look low that's going to help. I'm actually going to completely abandon this "virtualized main machine" idea...it's just FAR too buggy and glitchy. It's been nothing but trouble and STILL isn't working right. It was cool getting passthrough to work...hadn't done that before...but looks like that's where this party is going to end. Time to go back to a normal install. Oh well. Thanks, everyone!!

I have not! Will definitely give it a shot! Thank you!!

I virtualized my main desktop (which I use for gaming, music stuff, everything) because I got tired of having drives die and having to reinstall windows and all that. (And I think virtualization is friggin awesome. lol) I passed through a NVMe SSD for the OS, a bunch of CPU cores from my 5950X and my RTX3090 as well as a bunch of USB devices like keyboard, mouse, audio interface, some music gear, etc. Works great overall, but I've noticed audio on it is SUPER wonky. I have to CONSTANTLY keep tweaking ASIO buffer size to keep it from being an all out glitchfest, and even then, once I DO get it working ok, it'll be fine for 30 seconds, clitch like CRAZY for 20 seconds, be fine for 45 seconds, everything will completely freeze for a minute, etc etc. It's basically unusable with any audio software. Which is kinda strange. I wouldn't think that'd be affected by the virtualization but I guess it's because of the USB passthrough?...that's how my audio interface is connected... Can anyone think of any tweaks I can try to get it to stop glitching like CRAZY and being a generally unusable peesajunk? Are there any ways to speed up, optimize, etc USB passthrough? Any best practices? Any info greatly appreciated!! Thank you!!

Awesome. Thanks.

Yea, I'm looking up the "manual snapshot" procedure. DD the disk and backup the VM itself...don't remember that last part. I guess that'll work... I did all this because I had my boot drive die (again) and thought, "I'll virtualize it all so next time it happens, it won't matter." Guess I could just put the vdisk on that SSD...dunno how well that would perform...

Jeeeeeeeeeez...I COMPLETELY rebuilt this machine basically just to do that...

Hmmm...interesting...I'm passing a physical disk through to the VM...

I FINALLY got my GPU passthrough and everything working and DESPERATELY want to snapshot it so I know I have a good, working baseline and, when I click "create snapshot", I'm told there is "insufficient storage for snapshot"... ...uh...wut? Insufficient storage WHERE, exactly? I have ~16.5TB of free space on the array, almost 500GB of free space in the ZFS array...where is it trying to store the snapshot? I'm thinking there's some setting I have to tweak or something but this makes no sense...I have storage space all over the place. lol That's beta software for ya. Hahaha

Yup...going this route. Kinda answered my own question. lol For anyone in the future considering going USB?...no need! Takes two SATA power inputs and has 4 SATA outs for the drives... AND it has a fan!! lol Awesome...USB drive to run unraid, this via SATA for my big, old 8TB drives, AND I can add all the other random 2.5" drives, m.2 drives, all that other random junk I have laying around too. Should be PERFECT!! A SATA enclosure, even if you gotta shuck your drives, is a MUCH better option!! 👍

Ooo...I think something like this would probably work MUCH better...

Just looking for opinions! Tell me how terrible of an idea this is...lol I have 4 3.5" drives and a USB drive with a license from an old unraid server I had. I also have a desktop machine that recently had its OS drive fail and I'm thinking about virtualizing it. The drives won't fit in the machine, so how terrible of an idea would it be to get an external USB enclosure (maybe something like this) and adding the drives that way? Does unraid play nice with array drives being run over USB? I haven't tried it before.

Thanks!! Think I'm going to try to work on getting it updated and everything this weekend. 👍

Yea, I figured it was because I was a bit behind. I really hate updating...guess I should. Might as well if I'm gunna go to 7, anyway...God I hate updating...lol Thanks!!

Hmmm...I'm actually not seeing EITHER of those...lol I see "Appdata Backup/Restore V2.5" by the Kluth dude. That's it. It's like the plain "Appdata Backup" by Kluth that you shared and Squid's "V2" had a baby, "V2.5"...🤣

I'm seeing people saying Appdata Backup is deprecated...is there a new/better way to do this now?

I actually came across that recently. I'm BIG on backups...got it installed, working on getting it set up. It's a bit confusing, but I'll get it sorted.

Got ya. I'll look into those links you provided. I did read a bit about some of those things you mention and nothing seemed TOO crazy...the Docker issues worry me, though. I have quite a few Docker containers and that getting screwed up would BEYOND suck. Maybe Beta 1 is da wey!! Thanks!!

Thanks!! Been out for a little while...that's good. Hopefully it won't be in beta for TOO much longer. Anyone heard of any bugs?...any major issues?

True true!! Oh, that was something else I meant to include in the original post...how long has it been around? Like...has it been in beta for a year already or did it just come around last week?

I'm currently running v6.11.3...I just heard that v7 has some MASSIVE improvements that I've been waiting for for quite a while, so I'm thinking about jumping on the beta. Before I take the leap, I would love to hear what experiences you all have had with the beta v7. So... It's still in beta...I don't run in a "production" environment or anything like that, but I also don't want to take unnecessary risk with my data. Is it usable or should I wait? Have you had any issues with the beta? I loooooathe updating things in general as SOMETHING always breaks, but I really want VM snapshots and ZFS. Hahaha What have your experiences been?