July 21, 20214 yr Dear, Since some time I have evaluated the Unraid product and are quite happy with the performance using the trial version. I have already configured a lot on my server hardware and do want to migrate everything to a new purchased licence - new USB stick is on hand - obviously registered in the forum and My Server plug-in installed. What should I do to upgrade to Unraid paid license - is there somewhere a step-by-step tutorial ? I have taken a backup of my current trail version USB stick. So what to do ? At which moment of the upgrade process I should change the USB stick hardware in the server ? Obviously I cannot boot the Unraid server without a license... Many thanks for advice.
July 21, 20214 yr 17 minutes ago, ullibelgie said: new USB stick is on hand Why do you not want to use the flash drive you already have configured?
July 21, 20214 yr Author "Why do you not want to use the flash drive you already have configured?" Because it is a very old, almost mechanical damaged USB stick, which I got for free somewhere as a promotion gift. This stick is already almost broken, as it is so old and carried around thousand times in the last years... That is why I bought a brandnew one - Samsung Bar Plus 32Gb - for use with he new Unraid server... To use the old usb stick for longer is no option. regards,
July 21, 20214 yr Author I found this in the documentation files: https://wiki.unraid.net/Manual/Changing_The_Flash_Device It says that the trial license will not work or even copied to the new replacement USB stick, but will remain forever on the old stick (although expire) Now , booting the fully configured Unraid server (during the trial period) from the new USB stick will not start the array, until I have bought a license ... So it seems to me, that the backup-configuration of the flash drive from the trial back-up (zip file) will work and start up the disk array with the new purchased license and the disks will not been reset to a blank status ... Is this correct ?
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