Hi

 

I have come to the conclusion that I want to do a fresh install. I have installed/unistalled/scripted on my installation for 5 years now. I feel that it is time to wipe my USB drive and start over.

 

I am currently on unRAID 5.0 rc11. I have 5 disks + parity + cache. All with data I want to keep.

 

Anyone who has done this and have a clue on how to do this?

 

Regards Jens

First, I'm not sure what benefit you think this would provide.  Linux isn't like Windows -- wiping and reinstalling isn't really needed to clean things up ... you can simply remove all the add-ins from your GO script (and delete your additional folders and packages if you really want to "clean up" the flash drive).

 

But if you DO want to "start clean", be sure you save your UnRAID key file [To be safe, I'd copy your entire flash drive to a folder on your PC before doing anything else];  and be CERTAIN you know the serial numbers of your data disks.    Now, to be safe, run a parity check to be sure you have good parity (when you "start fresh" you won't have a protected array at first, so you want to be sure everything's okay before you run at risk).

 

Then you can simply move the flash drive to your Windows PC; reformat it with "UNRAID" as the label; run the UnRAID script to install UnRAID on the flash drive;  add your key file;  and then move it to your UnRAID box.

 

When you boot to the "new" flash drive, assign your DATA drives to the array (it will be unprotected at this point; but all the data will be there);  then assign the parity drive.    It will run for several hours to compute parity; and then you'll be back in business.

 

Thanks for the reply! I will try that!

 

Regards Jens

At first the shares will not be active so you can't see them. But once you activate the shares every share you had before will show up. But they will have default settings so make sure you remember the settings on all your shares.

 

And you have to add the users as well.

 

If I remembered correctly you can check before you start the array that you parity is correct so unraid doesn't build parity again, it will do a parity check on the other hand.

Now, to be safe, run a parity check to be sure you have good parity (when you "start fresh" you won't have a protected array at first, so you want to be sure everything's okay before you run at risk).

 

This, how many people I've seen having read errors with their disks after swapping out their parity, it's like "Come on, don't you even bother to verify anything is correct?".

 

Obviously I'm not say all of the people failed or do a parity check, or that a parity check will 100% save you, but, I'm sure the majority of them don't eve bother.

If you backup and restore your /boot/config/super.dat then your disk configuration should be restored.