December 28, 20241 yr Ok so, Made a bit of a mistake while trying to sort out my unraid server and now im looking for some help please. My setup is . 1 x parity drive 5 x Data drive Problem ------------------------- I had a drive go offline, After trying to re enable it I decided to check my cable connections . changed port on sas expander , changed the data cable and power cable , changed drive twice but still NOK. eventually . replaced the the HBA card and data cables between HBA and sas expander . After this I got the device back online. Unfortunately this is where I made my mistake . instead of noticing the rebuild was already happening . I selected to format the drive. Upside, the drive I formatted is not he ORIGIONAL drive with all the data on. what I would like to know is there a way for me to put the old drive back into its correct place in the server and then rebuild the parity drive rather than letting it try and rebuild the data on that drive ? Hope some one can help me soon . Until then Im gonna leave the server off so I dnt make any more mistakes .....
December 29, 20241 yr Author well , New day and new problem . so I had an idea this morning and it seems to have worked . I remembered a tutorial on how to remove a drive and rebuild the array with less drives in it. Using that I reset the config for the array and manually added the drives back . This at least seems to have solved my issue so I don't end up loosing all my data . all original data disks are back in and happy and parity is busy rebuilding. NEW PROBLEM. I have searched but cant seem to find any specific info so hoping an answer will pop up here . After doing the array re config, My virtual machines have all disappeared . I would like to avoid having to completely redo them . in searching I did find that there is talk of being able to create a new VM but point it at the original img. Could some one please explain to me how to do this. Would really appreciate it . The 2 VM's where a windows 10 and Home assistant VM
December 29, 20241 yr Community Expert Solution Create your VM template and point the 'Primary vDisk Location' to the existing image you used before.
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