My boot drive seems to have gotten slightly scrambled, and I find myself not having a current backup. I do still have limited usage of the server, so what can I extract from it to simplify the job of setting up a fresh one?

 

The server does boot, but once it's up the web interface won't run, and the /boot directory appears empty. So a bunch of things that I'd ordinarily just be able to go look at aren't available to me. But I am able to ssh into the device where I can see everything (afaik) except for /boot, which should give me a leg up.

 

Things I'd hope to be able to figure out include

1. Which drives are which? I guess I only really care about which drive is the parity drive.
2. What plugins do I have installed, and what are their settings?
3. For the few Docker containers I run, what are the settings?
4. Is there anything else I should be thinking of and I'm forgetting?

 

For the  #2 and #3, I do have access to the appdata share, as well as backups created by CommunityApplicationsAppdataBackup. However, it's not clear to me how to restore that data? Would I just copy my backed up data right over the top of whatever winds up there on the new server?

 

I expect recreating the shares should be easy: I'll just have to point new shares to the existing folders. And for user access, I'll probably wind up having to reset passwords. And I assume that I won't have any trouble contact Lime team to get the registration for the new boot drive.

Edited January 25, 20224 yr by MoebiusStreet
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Can you get diagnostics?

 

Your configuration is all in the config folder on flash.

 

Maybe nothing wrong with your flash drive except it has disconnected. USB2 ports are more reliable for boot flash.

 

2 hours ago, MoebiusStreet said:

on the new server?

Are you moving everything to a new server?

 

 

 

It's not that I want to move to a new server, it's that I need to rebuild (software-wise) this one. That's because I was unable to resolve the problem I posted here:

 

Would have been better to just continue on that thread instead of starting a new one. Have you rebooted since that other thread?

 

 

10 hours ago, trurl said:

Would have been better to just continue on that thread instead of starting a new one. Have you rebooted since that other thread?

 

 

I have rebooted, same thing continues.

 

I've discovered another oddity, too. The SMB connection isn't stable - but it fails at a very regular interval. That is, I can copy any file up to about 1.6GB into the server. But anything bigger than that fails with a "network error". If, immediately following the failure, I try again, it fails at (apparently) the same amount of data transferred. That regularity makes me think it's something software-related rather than just a wonky ethernet connection.

 

So these are all things pointing me toward something corrupted on my boot disk and I should create a new one.

I've got everything fixed now. I was able to restore everything by creating a new boot flash drive, and copying the \config directory off the old one onto the new one.