Over the weekend my server became unresponsive. It eventually opened the gui and i saw the CPU was 100%. I was able to run htop and this is what it showed.

I tried to restart but it never came back up. Seems the USB drive is dead. I tried downloading the Boot Device Backup from Connect, first coupel times it gave me an error. Then it downloaded a backup, but when i used it to create the USB, it didn't install any data. Theres just an empty "syslinux" folder and the normal files on the root of the usb. No Config folder nor EFI folder. Does unraid connect have a bad backup? it says its from just 3 days ago.

Edited Tuesday at 03:21 PM1 day by PassTheSalt
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I was able to go into the zipped backup and those two folders were there. I copied everything in syslinux in and the Config / EFI folders. Now unraid boots, but its asking me to create a root password? i want to make sure i don't overwrite a backup if this thing connects to unraid connect. any idea what going on?

Recommend recreating the flash drive using the USB tool and then restoring only the complete /config folder from the backup, if that still asks for a root password, it suggests the backup is missing files.

2 hours ago, JorgeB said:

Recommend recreating the flash drive using the USB tool and then restoring only the complete /config folder from the backup, if that still asks for a root password, it suggests the backup is missing files.

just want to make sure I'm understanding. When I create the flash drive using the creator tool, and my backup, it doesn't have anything in it but those bzroot bzfirmware make_bootable files but theres no OS or anything. If i just move the config folder over it doesn't boot.

or do you mean create a fresh install of whatever version I had using the creator and then moving the config into that?

1 hour ago, PassTheSalt said:

create a fresh install of whatever version I had using the creator and then moving the config into that