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Well it has been awhile, but I may have finally solved my issue. Log was continuing not to rotate. Here it what changed.
I upgraded to ver.7.2 on Sunday, which went fine by the way, and while looking around on Monday to make sure all is well and what might be new for my setup, I see a warning that i have "Share name contains restricted character(s)". When i changed 'Syslog Server' to 'Syslog_Server' the log rotated at the scheduled time this morning. Ill continue to watch as it will take awhile to reach the 2MB threshold again and update if it fails again. So for now I will mark this as solved.

well i was able to pick up a Lexar 8GB drive on way home from work. Set it up using creator tool and copied over my backup. Booted up server and changed key to new USB.
Parity check currently running. A couple settings were reset to defaults but otherwise all seems back up and normal. Now just wait for parity check to finish and hope its solved.
 
By the way @VelcroBP, when i put old flash into WIN PC, windows don't even recognize the drive. Its toast. Just hope it was age and not some other issue....