I'm not sure how badly I've screwed up, but my USB stick apparently died (w/o backup, of course).  I've purchased a new USB stick, installed Unraid, pluged it in to my server, and rebooted.  But rather than going to Tools -> Registration and hitting Replace Key, I clicked on Trial.  Now I don't have a "replace key" option, and I don't know how to proceed.  Do I need to buy a new USB stick and start over?  I'll probably have other questions after I get past this, but the first thing I need to do is to get my key onto that flash drive.

Do you have your original key?

Thank you for the quick response, trurl.  I've found the five year old email with the order confirmation, but that doesn't contain the key.  I also seem to be able to access the "dead" USB drive, and I see a file in /config named Basic.key.  Honestly, I don't even remember what I'm looking for.  A URL?  A SHA256 key?  Yes, I have the key!

Edited June 18, 20224 yr by nkn56

Did you actually get a trial key for that new flash drive?

Thanks again, trurl.  I should have checked my old emails first (in my defense, I didn't even remember what I was looking for).  Now to see if the various readme's can help me with my disk assignments, etc.

Do you mean you were able to replace your key?

https://wiki.unraid.net/Manual/Changing_The_Flash_Device

Yes, it would appear that I have successfully replaced the key.  I got a new email with a new URL, which I copied and pasted into Tower, and it appears to be happy (no red errors in the upper right corner)

 

5 minutes ago, nkn56 said:

help me with my disk assignments

https://wiki.unraid.net/Manual/Changing_The_Flash_Device#What_to_do_if_you_have_no_backup_and_do_not_know_your_disk_assignments

Yup, thank you -- I'm reading that now.

Can you get any more of config from your old flash? Everything about your configuration (all settings from the webUI) is in the config folder on flash. Without any of that you are starting over with only your data.

 

You will have user shares since they are simply the top level folders on array and pools, but they will all have default settings.

 

You may have dockers but you won't be able to work with them from the webUI since their templates were on flash.

 

Etc.

Trurl, you're a genius.  Yes I can see, for instance, DISK_ASSIGNMENTS.txt -- I'll bet that's useful, huh?  It's weird that both Unraid and Window says the flash drive is bad, but I seem to be able to read it.  I won't complain -- I'll just copy the data I need.

Edited June 19, 20224 yr by nkn56
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