January 25, 201610 yr My brother is trying to move his pictures off of his unRAID because I am building him a new one. The current one is crashing fairly consistently (and it's a Hodge-podge of hardware components). He's trying to move his pictures from the unRAID to his desktop, however, in his words: Goes for a little while then the transfer rate goes to 0 and I get a pop up saying the network drive is inaccessible. And then I can't load the web interface It seems to restart sometimes, but it takes a looong time So I go climb over all of our shit in the basement and manually restart it. Then go to the user interface and spin up the drives. This is very frustrating as this is the only location he has for his photos and they're obviously very important. The transferring is becoming tedious. What information can be gathered to determine what is causing the crash?
January 25, 201610 yr Shutdown the server, install the disks via an external usb dock to his desktop (1 at a time), copy to windows maintaining share/folder structure. You may need disk file system drivers - make certain drivers are windows or Linux as needed. Alternatively wait until new server is built, take note of data disks, and assign into same order with same shares. Note that unraid provides 1 disk fault tolerance and the ability to move disk shares to a new machine easily. It does not provide a 'backup'
January 25, 201610 yr Side notes. If in an inacessable location, spend the money on a board with IMPI. why not SSH into the server (putty if on windows) and issue a reboot command? Not much anyone can do without an eventlog Safe to assume it has cleared 24 hours of memtest recently? List all the hardware.
January 25, 201610 yr Author Shutdown the server, install the disks via an external usb dock to his desktop (1 at a time), copy to windows maintaining share/folder structure. You may need disk file system drivers - make certain drivers are windows or Linux as needed. Alternatively wait until new server is built, take note of data disks, and assign into same order with same shares. Note that unraid provides 1 disk fault tolerance and the ability to move disk shares to a new machine easily. It does not provide a 'backup' Will windows be able to read these disks? I was under the impression that unRAID used a file-system that Windows couldn't read.
January 25, 201610 yr Author Side notes. If in an inacessable location, spend the money on a board with IMPI. why not SSH into the server (putty if on windows) and issue a reboot command? Not much anyone can do without an eventlog Safe to assume it has cleared 24 hours of memtest recently? List all the hardware. Yeah. I figured. Don't have a list at the moment (it's really Frankensteined). If he's unable to get it off by tomorrow night I'll walk him through getting the event log.
January 25, 201610 yr Older unraid used rfs. Current can use rfs, xfs, btrfs.... All of which can be read by windows with a driver. Just google: reiserfs windows. For rfs
January 25, 201610 yr Older unraid used rfs. Current can use rfs, xfs, btrfs.... All of which can be read by windows with a driver. Just google: reiserfs windows. For rfs Just curious, have you actually done this recently? I've had issues in the past with finding xfs and btrfs support in windows. The quickest way I've found is booting a minimal linux rescue cd on the windows machine and mounting both the windows destination volume and the linux source volume and using rsync or whatever to do the copy. I've never had good luck directly reading anything but ext and reiserfs in windows using driver tools.
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