I had unraid 7.3.1 running and the webGUI wouldn't load but I could still login over SSH. It looked like the USB boot drive was corrupted. I took a command line backup zip file. I had thought I had taken another backup after successful upgrade to v7.3.1, but I suspect I only downloaded it to a ramdisk that got wiped on PC reboot since I can't find it in my usual storage locations.

When I made a replacement USB flash disk and copied over the config dir and booted up, I did the license key replacement for the new USB key but then saw none of my drives were assigned. At this point, I'm not sure what to do to move forward and get it operational again.

1. I have an older backup of v7.2.5 before the upgrade to 7.3.1 I could try. I believe I could make the USB flash as 7.3.1 and just need to copy the latest .key file from the current usb drive to be the current licensed key for this USB flash along with the config dir.

2. Use the backup of v7.2.5 as is, upon first boot, select the latest key file matched to USB and then upgrade to 7.3.1.

3. Give up on importing previous config, reconfigure the assigned drives. I know which two drives are parity, but does it matter which drives get assigned to which slot?

Thanks

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1 hour ago, trurl said:

I copied over my config folder but didn't have disk assignments. I checked my last backup from 7.3.1 and the pools dir is just garbage. I checked the 7.2.5 backup zip and I see zfspool.cfg and cache.cfg and none of the extra junk.

So the question is, should I just copy over the 7.2.5 backup pool and super.dat file ontop of the 7.3.1 flash disk, or just format and write the 7.2.5 backup to the usb flash?

(Feature request: sanity check/validate backups so there isn't false sense of success.)

Well, I copied over two cfg files from the pools dir and the super.dat from my 7.2.5 backup zip and rebooted. It came back up with assignments! All good!

Thanks for the help, @trurl !

Edited 21 hours ago21 hr by CaptainMorganCrunch