I had my UnRAID pen drive die on me and I have emailed through to support that I have a new GUID, but I am just chasing info for the time being.

 

I cannot get any of the config files off the old pen drive. Are there any ways from within UnRAID that I can determin which drives are data and which one is parity, or should I just boot another Linux distro live CD, see which ones have data and write down their SN.

 

Shares I am not interested in, I can easily reconfigure mapped drives etc, I am more concerned with preserving the data.

 

Sorry if this has already been asked and answered, I had a look through a few pages, and did a search.

 

Thanks in advance

Josh

Just assign all the drives as data drives. The parity will be the drive that is not formatted.

 

The user shares will appear with default settings but you will have to put in the custom settings again.

 

It'll be fairly easy for you to get it working again. You will not lose data as long as you DO NOT assign a data drive as the parity.

 

Peter

I just spoke to a friend who also uses unraid and he suggested something very similar. I spoze I wasn't thinking in a logical manner when I am concerned about my data if I missed the blindingly obvious.

 

Yeah I never had anything too special with the user shares. It won't be hard to reconfigure that end.

 

Thanks for the prompt reply. I appreciate it.

 

Josh

OK,

 

Have the license sorted and I am now getting another problem which may be obvious again.

 

After assigning disks to data disks to find which one was parity, I have reassigned the unformatted drive as parity and my 3 other drives as data. It tells me that this is an invalid configuration because one of the data disks (the one that is now parity) is missing.

 

Is there a way to force this configuration to update, even if it means rebuilding the parity from scratch I will gladly do it. Or...I could buy another HDD and replace parity, but I'm not pressed for space yet and I don't want to splash out money unnecessarily.

Just log-in and type initconfig. Answer with Yes.

 

Peter

I ended up solving the problem with the drive being set to data by just reinstalling unRAID to the same pen drive but making note of the serial number of the parity.

 

I got all of the drives connected where they should be and re calculated parity, but I am having my next problem. The drives say they have stuff on the, by capacity information, but the folders show up empty. I have been looking for a thread I found before I posted my last question which mentioned this same fault, but I can't find it  .

 

Thanks so much for helping me again, the selling point of unRAID for me was the active forum.

 

Josh

Version of unRAID?

Syslog?

 

Peter

I should have known better than to ask for assistance and not provide any information.

 

Thanks for your efforts Peter, I appreciate it

syslog.txt

Well, I don' see any big errors, but the config files for the shares are not being found. Did you go to the user shares page and set-up the shares and apply them? I'm not sure if that will fix it but it's worth a try.

 

Peter

Yeah I have, I will delete all shares and then create new ones again and see how I go with it.

 

Thanks

Josh

It occurred to me that I should say "Try recreating shares AGAIN." It was the first thing I tried.

Did you go look at the actual disks to see what is on them? Preferrably using the command line or Midnight Commander, but you could also share the disks.

 

Peter

 

 

I have unplugged the UNRAID pendrive and hooked up a USB dvd drive and did a live load of ubuntu 11.04 to try and access my data. It gives the following error

 

Unable to mount 1.0 TB Filesystem

error mounting: mount: /dev/sda1: can't read superblock.

 

The Drives passed quick seatools tests.

 

Should I run reiserfsck? sharing the individual disks or creating shares results in a drive that can be mapped and shows capacity in windows, but is an empty folder when you open it up.

 

The server terminal screen also had a lot of "has non-inet addr" commands one after another yesterday arvo.

 

Sorry for the huge gaps in my posts, I am flat out with university and work.

 

Josh

Is sda the parity drive?

 

Peter

Sorry, I didn't say the whole story.

 

I get that mount problem on every HDD. That was just the error that was up when I typed out what it said.

I'm just starting out, but reading this makes me wonder if it is good practice to make a backup of your pen drive whenever you make major changes to it? Is there a way within unRAID that I can plug a second stick in and copy/clone the contents across? Obviously the GUID won't match but as long as the contents do its a good safety net in case of a USB drive failure.

Concerning the USB drive backup ideal, I bought two key licenses and two USB sticks to put them on. I keep both keys up to date with the latest changes so that each key can serve to boot the system if needed. I also keep a complete backup of each USB stick on a separate computer just in case.

 

 

This strategy has already saved my bacon a time or two. Plus it helps to have that proven spare for when the wife needs help while I am gone and I can just tell her over the phone on how to swap USB sticks.

 

Thats my opinion.

 

Have a good one,

 

Jim Spence

Odd, but ubuntu must not be trying to mount them correctly. The drives mounted fine un unRAID according to your syslog. I'll go back to what I posted before. Did you check the actual drives for data in unRAID or did you just set-up the user shares and find them empty? If you went and created a user share with 1 small difference in the name then that would be a new share and not reflect the data already on the  drives.

 

Also, a failing USB stick would not damage any of your drive data.

 

Peter

 

 

UNRAID still says that the drives have stuff on them on the home page of the web address of the server. They are showing full capacity and an available capacity.

 

They are also showing the right amount of usage (from memory) and when I create a share in Windows (I have now tried an XP, Vista and 7, not that I suspected it) it shows up in My Computer as a ~3TB drive (I have 4 x 1TB drives in it) with approx 50% used (which is correct).

 

I apologise for the amount of times I have done silly things, like not give enough info, leave out syslog, I used to work as tech (for 7 years) and know they are stupid things to do, but it is amazing how fast you drop those habits when you don't do it every day anymore. I decided to finally do some stuff with linux when UNRAID caught my attention the same time as I was looking at data redundency.

 

I know my data is still sitting on the drives just waiting, so I am not freaking out too much, I am also going to post some pics of my 'little' beast in the next 30 mins or so.

 

Josh

Logon to the server.

 

cd /mnt

ls

 

You will find a directory like disk1, disk2 etc which is each data disk. cd into each one and do a ls and it will show what is on the disk.

 

Peter

YAY

 

Using that I can see and explore the folders and see the files within.

 

eg

cd /mnt/disk1/AUDIO/Music/The\ White\ Stripes/Elephant

will show me the lis of files that belong in that folder.

 

Now I either need a way to copy the data off through the terminal screen or get the data showing through the shared folders

Did you create a share called "AUDIO" as well as the others EXACTLY like the top level directory is named?

 

Peter

Originally, I never had a share called AUDIO, it was just the name of a root directory folder. I created a share called 'shared' which was the whole root directory.

 

I would map a network drive on each PC I wanted to have access and when opened would open 'shared' which would be every folder.

 

I was pretty sure I had even tried creating a share called Videos or Audio as they automatically show up as shares on the share page of web interface. No Luck. I just tried again with music (\\ArrayR2\AUDIO) and it also opens up an empty folder.

An unRAID share, as created on the user shares set-up page, is the top level directory on one or more disks.

 

You indicated that you have a top level directory called "AUDIO" on disk1. That is a user share. It should have appeared on the user share page with default settings when you turned-on user shares.

 

It sounds like you possibly created a smb-extra.conf file to define a custom share.

 

Peter

 

AHHH...finally got it 

 

 

Thank you so much to everybody who assisted and sorry for this being on that dragged on forever and as it turned out was an easy fix, I just haven't had time to spend on it and my mind has been completely occupied the last few weeks (I am studying dual degree Physics and Mathematics), but I am on holidays now and my first attempt since having a free mind I sorted.

 

And so it can be closed off...my solution.

 

When the shares page was set to enabled, it automatically created shares for each of the root directory folders on the server. I created another share called 'shared' (all lower case, as it originally was). I deleted all shares by wiping the name and hitting apply. once there were no shares left (except for 'shared'), I disconnected the mapped drive, re-mapped it and it works.

 

Yoshi