Hello from India,

 

I had purchased unRaid when Linus did the 10 Gamer 1 Cpu video. I set it up and used happily for a couple of months afterward, mostly VMs and a few Docker apps. I had a work related need for the box which unRaid was running on, so I had to uninstall it and use that computer for work related purposes.

 

I have just gotten my hands back on the box, so immediately put the setup back together, inserted the USB key and booted it up. A lot of things were out of place, so I did a fresh install.

Now I am at the stage of setting up user shares, but am completely lost. I remember back in the day I had set up shares with such names VM-DISK VM-ISO and each came with guidelines about the purpose of each share and its settings. I have attached an image of how my setup used to look like.

 

Unfortunately, I am unable to find any information about what are the default user share that one should set up and what are their recommended settings.

With any help, I will be able to set up the box and will be on my way to unRaiding. Thanks!

 

Edit: Is there any way to factory reset the system, so I can begin afresh. When I merely reinstalled previously, it still had all the old shares and folders etc.

If you did a fresh install you have already done a "factory reset". Those shares are there because of the data you have.

 

unRAID creates user shares from the top level folders of cache and array drives, so even if you don't create these shares yourself, if you have those folders you will get those shares. But they will have default settings if you haven't set them.

 

The orange triangles indicate shares that have some files not protected because they are still on cache and you only have one cache disk.

 

Thanks trurl,

 

I appreciate your response. I don't understand why having only one cache disk will make the data unprotected?

Shouldn't all cache data be written into the data disks? I just bought a RAID controller to plug in more disks 

 

Is it possible that I telnet or SSH into unRAID and delete those directories manually?

Otherwise, I can imagine booting from another USB on the unRAID box and formatting all drives.

 

Which directories would have to be deleted so that I have a setup as close to a 'factory reset'?

Cheers!

 

... I don't understand why having only one cache disk will make the data unprotected?

Shouldn't all cache data be written into the data disks?

 

Data that's cached for a share will be written to the protected array when the Mover runs (typically overnight, but you can control that schedule or even force a move by clicking on "Move Now").  Note that the cache is only used for cache-enabled shares (each share has a setting for this).    But for "cache-only" shares, such as the special folders you're seeing, they are never written to the protected array; so unless you have a protected cache pool, they aren't fault tolerant.

 

... Which directories would have to be deleted so that I have a setup as close to a 'factory reset'?

 

Nothing really.  A "factory reset" really just means you haven't set up any add-ons, plugins, Dockers, VM's, etc.  The folders on your disks are simply for storage.  You CAN simply delete them all if you want (using Windows Explorer; deleting the share (if it's empty); etc.).

 

Thanks. I shall be deleting them all.