After I do this. Can I still restore from a backup? I really don't want to have to reinstall all my dockers and reconfigure everything. It took a long time to get it working the way I wanted it.

I found an unraid backup from just before I shut down my server when I had to move out for my home reno which is about 2 months ago

That looks like you were relying on Appdata Backup plugin to store the backup of your configuration.

Keeping a backup needed for starting your system on that same system isn't the best plan. Unraid Connect will keep a backup of your configuration on Unraid Cloud.

You can use the config folder from that backup to overwrite the config folder on flash and you will have a configuration as current as that backup.

When I say "configuration" I mean all settings from the webUI. None of your storage has your configuration (unless you go to Internal Boot with a boot partition on your storage). Your storage just has your data. Some of that data is your appdata, but the docker templates needed to work with your dockers in the webUI are part of your configuration in the config folder on flash.

Oh oh I think I did something stupid. I thought I had Connect previously so I installed it. But all of a sudden I lost access to my unraid server. I get site can't be reached now.

edit: nevermind. Seems my server went into sleep mode.

Edited June 17Jun 17 by DigitalDivide

My dockers are all there and seem to be working.

First off I want to say thanks for all your help. I really do appreciate it!

Last question for the night as it's getting quite late for me.

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You can use the config folder from that backup to overwrite the config folder on flash and you will have a configuration as current as that backup.

When I say "configuration" I mean all settings from the webUI. None of your storage has your configuration (unless you go to Internal Boot with a boot partition on your storage). Your storage just has your data. Some of that data is your appdata, but the docker templates needed to work with your dockers in the webUI are part of your configuration in the config folder on flash.

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Not sure I follow. How do I grab the config folder from that backup? Is it just a zipped file that I can copy to my pc and unzip it? Not sure what you mean by ""configuration" I mean all settings from the webUI."

Ooops one other question. I can browse my shares of my server from my pc but can't see the individual drives like I use to. I know there was a setting so I can see my individual disks, just can't remember what it was. Was it export on each drive?

Sorry, the backups in your screenshot are the appdata backups. Those are intended to restore your appdata using the plugin. Not clear if you also have appdata backup plugin saving flash backups, and if so, where you told it to save them.

14 hours ago, DigitalDivide said:

Not sure what you mean by ""configuration" I mean all settings from the webUI."

When Unraid boots from flash (or from boot partition on 7.3+ if you have that setup), it unpacks the OS fresh from archives, into RAM, and the OS runs complettely in RAM. Think of it as firmware.

When the OS has finished loading, it gets ALL settings made in your webUI from that config folder and reapplies them to that fresh OS. That is your configuration. Any setting made in the webUI is saved there so it can be reapplied at boot.

If it is in the webUI, it is in your configuration in the config folder. Your disk assignments, your plugins, your docker templates, the settings you have made for each of your user shares, things on the Settings page, etc. If it is something you have configured in the webUI, it is in the config folder.

Most of the files in config are simple text files and if you examine them, you can get some idea how they correspond to settings in the webUI.

If you lose some or all of your configuration from that config folder, Unraid does not remember it. Simple as that.

15 hours ago, DigitalDivide said:

can't see the individual drives like I use to

I don't recommend sharing drives or pools on the network. If you mix user shares and drives/pools when moving/copying, you can lose data. If you really need to, you can work directly with files and folders on drives/pools using the builtin File Manager. It won't let you make the mistake of mixing user shares and drives/pools.

Most of what I have said about your configuration has been that way since the earliest days of Unraid. You have been on the forum several years longer than I have.

10 minutes ago, trurl said:

When Unraid boots from flash..., it unpacks the OS fresh from archives, into RAM, and the OS runs complettely in RAM. Think of it as firmware.

When the OS has finished loading, it gets ALL settings made in your webUI from that config folder and reapplies them to that fresh OS. That is your configuration. Any setting made in the webUI is saved there so it can be reapplied at boot.

If it is in the webUI, it is in your configuration in the config folder. Your disk assignments, your plugins, ..., the settings you have made for each of your user shares, things on the Settings page, etc. If it is something you have configured in the webUI, it is in the config folder.

Most of the files in config are simple text files and if you examine them, you can get some idea how they correspond to settings in the webUI.

If you lose some or all of your configuration from that config folder, Unraid does not remember it. Simple as that.

It has always worked just like that.

I ended up doing a restore of the dockers from appdata restore. Most everthing works but having one issue. It's in relation to Sonarr. When trying to copy the files to the destination folder I'm getting the following error.

Couldn't import episode /data/completed/Daredevil.Born.Again.S02.2160p.DSNP.WEB-DL.DDP5.1.Atmos.DV.HDR.H.265-BLOOM/Daredevil.Born.Again.S02E07.The.Hateful.Darkness.2160p.DSNP.WEB-DL.DDP5.1.Atmos.DV.HDR.H.265-BLOOM.mkv: Access to the path '/tv/Daredevil - Born Again' is denied.

Not sure why the access to the path is denied.

I have this set in sonarr

and the folder does exist

Well, I fixed that. For some reason had to remove the unassigned partition, format the drive, then recreate the partition. Seems to have done the trick