July 5, 20224 yr Hi all, About six months ago I was out of town and we had multiple power outages while I was away. Unfortunately, my UPS wasn't configured correctly and my unRAID server went down and came back up multiple times with the outages. When I got home I ran a parity check and all of my data was fine but I noticed that a bunch of my settings, like the server name and FTP off/on, had changed or reverted back to defaults and I found a ton of fsck files on my USB drive--presumably because some process tried to fix a damaged filesystem. I restored my VMs from my backup but when I went to restore my USB drive/unRAID setting I realized that I had made a serious mistake. The CA plugin I had been using for USB backup was just doing a daily rsync rather than a versioned backup! It had already been more than a day by the time I got back so my backup had already been overwritten. Initially, I thought, no problem, I documented my setup, Ill just follow my own instructions. But, as is often the case, my docimentation isn't perfect, and after I finished my initial setup I didn't document every little tweak. All that to say, I don't have a perfect record I can recreate my unRAID settings from. After all of this happened, I ended up just shutting down my server. I didn't have time to deal with it and I didn't know what I even had to do to fix things or if I had a viable and secure configuration. But now I have some time again and I want my server back (and I want my data back). This time around, I started by copying everything from the USB drive to my workstation and then diffing against the baseline install zip file from the version of unRAID I was using. I figured I would be able to at least get a good indication of the changes I had made. However, once I started going through the diff I found changes all over the place and it looks like some config files may have had defaults written to them which overwrote my settings (not confirmed, I just see a lot of settings that don't match what I remember). Any ideas how to get everything back to my settings? Best, -- Jokes Edited July 6, 20224 yr by JokesOnYou77
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