Hello! My cache pool recently required reformatting. I did this by using the unbalance plugin to move my appdata and system folders from the pool onto an array disk. Then I formatted the cache and used the native mover to move the appdata folder back onto the cache.

 

That all seemed to go just fine, but now whenever I start a Docker container - it acts like it's the first time running and seems to ignore any existing configuration stored in the appdata folder.

 

I can see the modified dates and times update within the appdata folder when I launch the Docker, but I can't figure out why it's ignoring everything and behaving as if it was just installed.

 

root@Enterprise:/mnt/user/appdata/unifi-controller# ls -la
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 1 nobody users   22 Dec  3  2019 ./
drwxrwxrwx 1 nobody users 1098 Mar 19 15:21 ../
drwxr-xr-x 1 nobody users   42 Mar  5 15:48 data/
drwxr-xr-x 1 nobody users    0 May 22  2021 logs/
drwxr-xr-x 1 nobody users    8 Mar  3 15:33 run/
root@Enterprise:/mnt/user/appdata/unifi-controller# ls -la
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 1 nobody users   22 Dec  3  2019 ./
drwxrwxrwx 1 nobody users 1098 Mar 19 15:21 ../
drwxr-xr-x 1 nobody users  200 Mar 19 20:35 data/
drwxr-xr-x 1 nobody users   52 Mar 19 20:34 logs/
drwxr-xr-x 1 nobody users   86 Mar 19 20:35 run/`

 

What's even more confusing, is a couple dockers are working just fine - like Grafana and Home Assistant for example. And all of its paths are configured the same as the others from what I can see.

 

I've looked over the docker troubleshooting page, in particular - the "Why did my files get moved off the Cache drive?" section. I've made sure that my containers are using /mnt/cache/appdata and that still doesn't seem to work properly. (Some were previously set to /mnt/user/appdata/ and I've tried changing those without any luck).

 

Any suggestions? Thanks!

enterprise-diagnostics-20220322-1041.zip

It's unfortunately looking like the process of starting the docker container blows out any existing data as I'm having trouble even restoring these on a different docker host. Not sure if anyone has any ideas at this point or if I should just consider the data lost.

 

-- edit --

 

Well, my current guess is that somewhere along the backup & restore process - the folder structures of everything in appdata was saved but just about every file is gone. Not sure if unbalance or the native mover is at fault -- but it looks like I'm rebuilding everything from scratch.

Edited March 24, 20224 yr by vb543