Hello,

Can someone provide a resource on how to do a test restore (recovery testing) of an UNRAID server, without having to purchase a full license?

for example,. can I do a test recovery of my existing licensed unraid server on the 30 day trial version? any pitfalls.

Thank you,

S

You can use a trial.

2 hours ago, appssvp said:

for example,. can I do a test recovery of my existing licensed unraid server on the 30 day trial version? any pitfalls.

You can with the exception that you cannot carry over an existing configuration to a trial. Booting from a trial really is only good for testing hardware failures as you would have to re-assing your disks in the proper slots which requires you to know ahead of time which disks are data and which are parity because if you guess wrong, you can lose data.

Honestly having a backup of your boot drive and then restoring said backup to a new boot USB is the best way to recover from a boot drive failure.

Edited September 17Sep 17 by MowMdown

thank you, for answer. for my piece of mind, would like to do a full restore of my VM's to ensure full functionality.. may endup buying a license just to test this. I am surprised this is not addressed somewhere else,

if for no other reason, users can practice doing a full restore under less stressful conditions (than an emergency situation).

10 hours ago, appssvp said:

thank you, for answer. for my piece of mind, would like to do a full restore of my VM's to ensure full functionality.. may endup buying a license just to test this. I am surprised this is not addressed somewhere else,

if for no other reason, users can practice doing a full restore under less stressful conditions (than an emergency situation).

Well with a paid license you just restore a backup to a fresh boot drive, boot, and run the license transfer. Trials complicate this due to the fact you can’t reuse an already setup configuration.