Well... unRAID had been working great.  Until I tried to upgrade from 4.5.6 to 4.7.  Somehow I've corrupted or overwritten my flash drive and I need (PLEASE!!!) some help in getting things to work again.  I can boot to the flash but, of course, it looks like a fresh installation.  So.. where are my shares, drives, etc?  If someone could please guide me to the right spot....  I'm scared and embarrassed... I've forgotten what I once knew and can't find my way back.  Thanks in advance.

Well... unRAID had been working great.  Until I tried to upgrade from 4.5.6 to 4.7.  Somehow I've corrupted or overwritten my flash drive and I need (PLEASE!!!) some help in getting things to work again.  I can boot to the flash but, of course, it looks like a fresh installation.  So.. where are my shares, drives, etc?  If someone could please guide me to the right spot....  I'm scared and embarrassed... I've forgotten what I once knew and can't find my way back.  Thanks in advance.

 

we need way more information then you gave us.

 

A syslog, hardware breakdown, and a screen shot of the main page so we can see what everything looks like.

syslog will give you necessary hardware data, i think?  drive types are listed...

 

[i've masked the GUID, will give you that via email...?]

 

 

syslog-2011-04-11.txt

I bet you overwrite all the files on the flash?

 

Go to the devices page and re-assign the drives to the proper spots. If you do not know 100% which one is parity then leave it unassigned until you start the array and verify all your data disk. If you assign a data disk as parity and press start you will lose that drive - you have been warned.

 

Go to the shares page and enable user shares. The shares will come back and if you didn't erase the user share config files on the flash then all the settings should come back to match.

 

go to the main page. If the server is ready to start then press start. Otherwise, log-on to the server and type initconfig and answer Yes. Then, go back to the main page and press the start button.

 

Confirm all your shares and disks. Once you know they are good then you can stop the array and assign the parity drive before starting it again and allowing a parity build to complete.

 

Peter

is there any way, from the command line, to attempt to find which drive is parity?  I know that the parity drive is a Hitachi 2TB, but I've got three of those.  I'd only be guessing which one is parity.  Again, many thanks.

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=4006.msg35760#msg35760

 

The only way to be certain of which drive is the parity drive is to keep good records, and to take screen shots, or to save system logs. (the drive assignments are logged)

 

You should (must) take a new screen shot, or make a new record every time you re-configure your drives.  File the screen-shot away, fold it up and put it in the server so you do not lose it, put it in an envelope taped to the cover...  It might just save you from hair-loss if you find yourself in a recovery situation. 

 

then..

You will have to reconfigure your drive assignments.  If you cannot remember which drive is which, I suggest that you don't set a parity drive, but try each drive configured as a data drive and try accessing the data on it.  This will, hopefully, allow you to determine which drive is which and reinstate your original configuration.  Then, enable user shares, and all your data should be back and accessible, exactly as it was prior to 'the incident'!

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=7539.msg72970#msg72970

Assign them all and start the array. The one that appears unformatted will be the parity drive.

 

Peter

 

OK.  progress.  to a point.  but now i'm seemingly stuck with an Invalid Configuration on the main screen (attached).  Let me give a bit more detail:  I have 7 drives total.  the parity is one of the three 2TB hitachi drives.  I was not certain which drive was the cache, but upon mounting a maxtor 300gb drive and seeing that it had only one file on it and that being the one i created just before this nightmare started, it would sure seem that this is the cache.  Problem now,  though, is that as i had initially mounted the maxtor as disk 1, unRAID seems now to be 'holding on' to it (is italicized on the main screen)  as disk 1 after i attempt to assign it to cache.  as far as the parity goes, i think i've eliminated one of the 3 hitachi's so now i'm down to guessing between the remaining two.  if i guess wrong and assign it to any of the disks (1 thru 5), it will, per the last respondent, appear as unformatted.  is this correct?

 

thanks again again.

Yes, it will appear unformatted. It has a partition but no file system.

 

As for how to fix the invalid config and start the array, I already answered;

 

go to the main page. If the server is ready to start then press start. Otherwise, log-on to the server and type initconfig and answer Yes. Then, go back to the main page and press the start button.

 

Peter