I researched this a bunch before attempting but every resource I found seems to have been referring to pre 7 unraid and I think the process changed. Nevertheless I figured with a backup at worst I would be able to restore and keep rolling boy was I wrong. Help please.

 

My appdata and system folders both existed on the main array and I was worried that having them on the array was causing slowdowns and generally it seems most people offload them onto a SSD cache drive. I have a 256GB SSD cache drive and I have it setup in its own pool. After moving everthing to the cache drive I see the files existing but none of my dockers show up and theres a new MNT folder that has been created on the cache drive that didnt previously exist.

 

Heres the steps I performed. (mostly followed existing resources however some difference based on none existent options. or I screwed up.)

 

1. backed everything up

2. Stop Dockers and disabled both docker and VM services.  

3. Setup the SSD as its own cache.

Setup the parameters in Appdata and System Shares to use the new cache and nothing else. (This is where I differed from existing resources as the existing resoursces say to select prefer cache although that option doesnt exist anymore.)

4. Attempted to use mover to move appdata and system but it didnt seem to work.

5. Found a resource stating to manually move the folders so I moved them all too the new drive. 

6. Confirmed all 60GB of data exist and files look intact. 

7. Restarted Array.

8. Under the docker tab now it states no dockers are installed.

 

I restarted the entire server and didnt notice it before but now on the array a MNT folder exists with a appdata folder inside it.

 

Tried restoring from backup and still not working.

 

Im a bit confused. If someone would help me or poissibly remote into my system to assist I would be greatly appreciative. Im sure this is a classic PEBKAC.

 

If I have to reinstall all the dockers I guess its not that big of a deal just frustrating as everything was working and im worried it may not on second attempt to set it up.

Edited May 14, 20251 yr by Gloaf

Seems ive solved all my issues I simply had to reinstall the dockers and all the settings and stuff automatically populated it also solved my other issue I posted about the other day as I was having error messages in both sonarr and radarr and now both are gone.