Power went out earlier today, UPS directed a shutdown, and then upon power coming back, my Plex library was wiped and a parity check was required.  Something doesn't seem to be setup correctly.  This is on version 6.0 beta14b.

 

There was a few things I never got around to configuring on the box awhile back and now I'm at the point where I want to do a "factory reset", upgrade to latest software, and reinstall/configure everything from the ground up.  Question is, how do I do this without losing data on any of the drives?

Others will chime in, but honestly when I do this, I just download the latest version or whatever version you seeking, format the thumb drive, copy the files over, run the make bootable file just like you did before. Pop it in the server, boot it up and add your disks to the array. All your data on the array disks is still there. Just be sure you don't assign a data disk as a parity disk.

 

 

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Others will chime in, but honestly when I do this, I just download the latest version or whatever version you seeking, format the thumb drive, copy the files over, run the make bootable file just like you did before. Pop it in the server, boot it up and add your disks to the array. All your data on the array disks is still there. Just be sure you don't assign a data disk as a parity disk.

 

 

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Perfect, exactly what I was looking for.  Thanks for confirmation that this won't cause the universe (aka unraid box) to implode.

Definitely won't cause any "implosions" 

 

As noted above, the only thing you could do that would be catastrophic (in terms of data loss) is to assign the wrong disk as parity.    One very safe way to be CERTAIN you don't do that is to assign everything EXCEPT the parity disk; then Start the array and confirm all of your data is there and you don't have any "unformatted" disks [if you assigned the old parity disk as a data disk it would show as unformatted.]

 

THEN you can Stop the array; assign the parity disk; and then Start the array and let the parity sync run to completion.