Hi Guys,

 

My unRAID flash drive has been tweaked and updated along the way since version 4.3 or so. I have a mish mosh of packages from unMenu and plugins. I created recently a new unRAID server for a buddy, and his new server does not have all these niggly little bug nuances mine has.

 

I have a spare emergency registered flash drive, and I want to start with the latest version from scratch. However, I do have probably close to 12 TB of data in my system. So I do not want to jeopardize this. I want a clean flash drive, with all my shares, cache, user (only use root) and data intact. I do not need all the Packages and Plugins to begin with. I will add the latest plugin versions of:

 

• Swap File
  
• MySql (I want to keep my databases for centralized XBMC)
  
• Sabnzbd, Sickbeard, Couchpotato, Headphones
  
• Maraschino, HTPC Manager
  
• WebGUI from https://github.com/limetech/webGui
  
• Web Server
  

 

I do not mind reconfiguring all the plugins from scratch.

 

How can I accomplish this? Do I copy only the /flash/config folder from the current thumbdrive (without copying the /flash/boot/plugins folder) to a clean latest download?

 

Any advice or guidance is greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks,

 

Hernando

 

 

 

First, save your Pro.key file (or Plus.key file if it's a Plus version) associated with the extra flash drive.

 

Next, be CERTAIN you know exactly which drives are assigned to parity and cache.  The order in which your data drives are assigned doesn't matter; but you do NOT want to accidentally assign the wrong drive to parity or cache !!

 

Next don't copy anything to the flash.  Format it was FAT32 with a label of "UNRAID".

Then run the Makebootable.bat script from the v5.04 download.

 

Now copy the license key to the Config folder ... and you're ready to boot.

 

Boot with the fresh flash drive;  assign all of your data drives, but NOT your parity or cache drive.  Then Start the array and confirm everything looks okay.    Then Stop the array and assign your parity and cache drives => and then Start it again and let it do the initial parity sync.    When that finishes, run a parity check to confirm all went well.

 

... and you're now Done with a fresh install, with all of your data intact.    If you enable shares, all of the top-level folders will automatically be seen as shares, so you'll have the same ones you had before (although you may want to "tweak" those a bit if you had any special permissions; include/exclude settings; split level settings; etc.

 

At this point, I'd save a complete copy of the flash drive, so if you make any errors as you start adding plugins it's easy to restore back to where you started.    Then just start adding the plugins you want.

 

Thank you Gary.... This is very scary in my opinion....      There is nothing I can copy over from the old that will basically restore my drive assignments, shares and data? I see a few cfg files in /boot.... It is almost like the adage "if its not broke, dont fix it..." The issues I have are not really that bad.

Your data isn't touched by a new config.  The drive assignments don't matter as long as you get parity and cache right ... the data drives can be in any order.

 

As for the configuration of your various add-ons ... you indicated you want to do these "cleanly", so what I noted will give you a "clean" v5.0.4 install that you can then do exactly that.

 

Remember, you also have your old flash drive ... so you could always boot to it -- or look at the various config files for the plugins if you need to figure out how you had something configured.

 

If you only have a few issues, you may want to ask specific questions about those issues instead of starting over.

 

Thanks again Gary.... I am so nervous about it... but I will follow your advice, I will screen cap my drive screen and every other screen in my current seup.... No risk in mixing parity and cache.... 4TB vs 500GB... And if you say I can boo the old one, so be it....  MY system finished a parity check yesterday after 2.5 days.

 

Appreciate you hep. Thanks again.