February 19, 20242 yr Heya folks - apologies in advance for being basically illiterate in this, but... Had a power outage yesterday. Unraid server was connected via a surge protector, but not a UPS. (I know, I know!!) Powered the box back up after the power came on. Didn't seem to notice any issues, could hear the drives spinning up. Gave it a few minutes, then went to my laptop to access the GUI and start the array. Nope, no sign of it. Ran the gamut of easy issues - rebooted router, tried different ethernet ports on the router, different cables, no luck. (It's completely headless, and currently trying to find a DVI cable to see what's happening during boot). Popped the Unraid USB drive into the PC and got an error - There's a problem with the drive, scan now and repair it. (Sorry windows, I don't trust you, I'm asking people smarter than you first.) My assumption here is that my install is corrupted, so the plan was to back up the contents of the USB, format to FAT32 and reinstall Unraid, then copy the contents of the backed up config folder back over? (
February 19, 20242 yr Community Expert Looks like you joined the forum years ago. Are you not already keeping a current backup of your flash drive?
February 19, 20242 yr Author Alas no - full on neglect mode, assuming the thing was bombproof and wouldn't have issues. (Yeaaaaaah...) Managed to at least get a monitor attached to it, and booted with a head attached. Kernel Panic! So seems the way forward is to download the same version I currently have (eek) and just overwrite the bz. files with the new ones?
February 19, 20242 yr Community Expert You should probably fix the corruption. Or just copy what you can of config, reformat, reinstall, copy config back. 3 minutes ago, ubermick said: assuming the thing was bombproof I hope you don't assume parity is a backup. Do you have another copy of anything important and irreplaceable?
February 19, 20242 yr Author Oh no - I've been backing up data that's important (to be fair, not much on there, just photos - the movies and stuff I'd be annoyed to lose, but nothing vital), but the flash drive itself is something that never dawned on me to backup.
February 19, 20242 yr Community Expert You can download a flash backup from the Unraid webUI at Main - Boot Device - Flash - Flash Backup Every setting you have ever made in the webUI is in the config folder on flash, including your disk assignments. And your license. You should always keep a current backup of flash. Install the Connect plugin and it will keep a backup of flash on the Unraid cloud.
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