Little help !!!!

 

I'm in the process of getting my system going. I've been working with Tom to get everything over from my OpenBSD machine to the new unRAID server.

 

I had gotten 3 disks done (2 to go) and had tried to power the tower down, but stupid me I was telnet'd in and on one of the mounted drives. I crapped out with a weird message which I'm almost positive has to do with me connected in and on a mounted drive.

 

In any case, I gave it the one figer salute, installed another disk that needs to be cleaned and formated and now it booted back up fine, but the array is showing all disks with a blue icon, which I take to mean is a new drive. I have not assigned the new disk anywhere yet.

 

I have the options of

Start will record all disk information, bring the array on-line, and start Parity-Sync on parity  if present. The array is immediately available, but is unprotected until Parity-Sync completes.

or

Restore will initialize the stored array configuration; all drives will appear as New, but data disk contents are not affected.

 

Which one do I want to do so it's starts up but doesn't format anything. I still have another two disks to transfer so I'm guess I want to go with the second option... but I'm a little gun-shy 

 

Any help is appreciated.

 

From what you describe, it's already in a state where it thinks it's a 'all new array', ie, no need to do a Restore.

 

Were you able to get those UFS disks to mount?

Hey Tom,

 

Thank goodness you popped in. I'm hoping to get the other drive going seeing as it takes about 24 hours per disk to copy the information across from one old machine to the new one.

 

And that answers the question... no I never did get it to read the OpenBSD FFS disks... so I made up an old machine to boot OpenBSD, install the drives one at a time and mount a SAMBA share from the unRAID to the old box... and copy the files that way.

 

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