November 13, 2025Nov 13 I'm just going to copy and paste what I already posted on reddit, just makes my life a little easier. LolHi all!!So I've been thinking doing some sort of "factory reset" on my server. When I first set it up a few years ago, not only did I have no idea what I was doing but I didn't know that the trash guides were even a thing. I set everything up in a way that made sense at the time (to me anyway) but now that I'm adding more and more dockers, I keep running into issues that seem like they can be avoided if I use a standard "layout" like most people. My other issue is I have quite a few folders left over from dockers that I've uninstalled. Over the course of a few years there are a few things that were changed and what not, so maybe I follow the windows mentally and just resort it and start from the beginning. LolAm I crazy? Should I just redo the folder structure as it's described in the trash guide instead? Are there any pros or cons in doing it one way over the other?
November 13, 2025Nov 13 make a new usb fresh download form unraid. in the config folder, you will find a ***key file copy that into the new drives config folder. re-license your new usb and boot to a fresh no config version on unraid...https://docs.unraid.net/unraid-os/getting-started/set-up-unraid/create-your-bootable-media/unraid is kinda enoth to keep version history since the key chagne:https://docs.unraid.net/unraid-os/download_list/https://docs.unraid.net/unraid-os/system-administration/maintain-and-update/changing-the-flash-device
November 13, 2025Nov 13 44 minutes ago, Kouklo said:I'm just going to copy and paste what I already posted on reddit, just makes my life a little easier. LolHi all!!So I've been thinking doing some sort of "factory reset" on my server. When I first set it up a few years ago, not only did I have no idea what I was doing but I didn't know that the trash guides were even a thing. I set everything up in a way that made sense at the time (to me anyway) but now that I'm adding more and more dockers, I keep running into issues that seem like they can be avoided if I use a standard "layout" like most people. My other issue is I have quite a few folders left over from dockers that I've uninstalled. Over the course of a few years there are a few things that were changed and what not, so maybe I follow the windows mentally and just resort it and start from the beginning. LolAm I crazy? Should I just redo the folder structure as it's described in the trash guide instead? Are there any pros or cons in doing it one way over the other?all depends on what you want it to do and how you wnat to interact with it.disk layout is crucail before you start. where you want what saved and how is that saved across disk:unraid does have some pre-made recommended folder structure to follow. (more do to evolution of orginal implementation of code.appdata folder for CA and Docker location for config, settings and data of dockers.system for unriad mutable boot system data disk images for teh docker system and VM hyperv system.domains (as you can see in my picture I went with VM a place where unraid defaults saves Virtual Machines.https://docs.unraid.net/category/manage-storage/Shares | Unraid DocsA key feature of Unraid is the management of shares. Shares are folders or drives on your Unraid server that can be accessed over a network. You can create as many shares as you want on your Unraid seSo no not crazy on starting over. but you want to have a layout before implementation to know where what is and what is happening with your data.
November 13, 2025Nov 13 I am currently experiencing issues with my virtual machines. Upon starting them, the WebUI, Docker, and shares crash, yet the VMs remain reachable via RDP. Therefore, I would also like to begin with a fresh Unraid installation, preserving only the data on the array disks.Ideally, I would like to reuse the existing array disks along with their shares, without needing to format them. Everything else I can rebuild (cache pool, parity, docker containers, and virtual machines)Any pointers or guidance on how to do this properly would be greatly appreciated.Thank you in advance!
November 14, 2025Nov 14 To keep only the assignments, you can backup the current flash drive first and then recreate it using the USB tool and just restore the the key, super.dat and the pools folder for the assignments.If you want to keep the shares with their existing settings, also restore the complete shares folder, but note that if you don't restore that, shares for all top-level folders will still be created, but will use the default settings.
November 14, 2025Nov 14 15 hours ago, urbi said:I am currently experiencing issues with my virtual machines. Upon starting them, the WebUI, Docker, and shares crash, yet the VMs remain reachable via RDP. Therefore, I would also like to begin with a fresh Unraid installation, preserving only the data on the array disks.Ideally, I would like to reuse the existing array disks along with their shares, without needing to format them. Everything else I can rebuild (cache pool, parity, docker containers, and virtual machines)Any pointers or guidance on how to do this properly would be greatly appreciated.Thank you in advance!depends on host machine, mother baord, nubmer of disk, size of disk, type of disk and what you want it to do and how you want to interact with it.I have a amd system (ryzen 5) g processor so it has onboad graphics, a nvdia 20 series card running in Proxmox v9 with VGPU Graphics via polo gpup vgpu guide...with this proxmox VM system I have a HBA lsi card and have 4 disks. 3x 16 TB disk in a zfs raid z1 and a 120 GB wd used as a cache disk for unraid. pool only setup no disk 1 no array.long term data gets stoed on teh 3 disks. shor term data is ran out of the ssd.This gives me proxmox for my VMs, unraid for my dockers and contorl over teh cpu ram and other resouce i can let uraid have.due to kernal 6 chagnes and older nvdia stuff no longer I chagned hat unaid system to a debain omv install...just means if i want a g card in teh vm i have to pcie pass a graphic card simalr to how i pass my hba into unraid curently...so I mean, what your end use case and hardware you have on hand...I went this route to meet my needs and services I was running. the old saying teh I machien that cna do everything... Its not good to have all your things in 1 basket...I try to follow the 321 backup rules as well...3 location 2 disks 1 offsite to guranteee backup recovery...raid is not a backup its uptime / redundancy... unraid is docker king. I ha yet to find a good suitable replacment... portainer is getting there... icewales casa os has its issues there wokring it out. bit cooin miner docker known umbrel... the curent docker wave atm is mainting and using docker compose. While a plugin exist for v2(out dated) it works well enoth to run copose version...Like I said.. use case... I want to interact with a web UI to contorl theses... all of this can be done via termainl / ssh...I would asume cpu limts and resource issues to cause emhttp (unraid web ui failing)... I would need the xmls vm code to take a look. I don't like unraids defualt vcp[u pinning. I prefer to let the cpu load balancor handle that and set a pre defined abmout...unraid implemnts libvirt qemu hype v and loads vms via xml domain format.https://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html there are some recomend edits, guides and settings setup. but with out knowing what your running it hard to say and recomend...
November 14, 2025Nov 14 General network settings I recommend:Advance docker settings:*More to do with layer 2/layer 3 issues latter and giving a custom br0 docker lan anatomy with macvlan...Vm settings:*more with new vm creations on defaults paths, settings and how things are generated latter.What vm? any hardware passed? Depending on hardware installed and passing devices into a VM.Then there are a few plugins I recommend be installed on all and any unraid...*Ed, Space invader has quite a few video on this as well...Plugins! Example per CA what I have:Most are optional...the mains are user scripts, unassigned devices, fix common problems appdata backup. tips and tweaks is a nice one as well give you the ability to click in the web ui and get a short description of and documentation on the setting... the blue boxes seen above...Once you have your system ready and your data layout done, share settings and other pre configured then we can look at xml edits and fixes to improve Virtualizing system in unraid. OR vise versa. Virtualizes unraid in proxmox and run your unraid system in a vm.https://forums.unraid.net/topic/179219-guide-proxmox-virtualize-unraid-experimental-with-v7/
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