June 12, 201016 yr nOOb alert... (you have been warned) Okay, I ordered my PRO UnRAID Flash drive yesterday but all my hardware arrived today. I hammered everything together and I downloaded the BASIC version, pureed it onto a spare flash drive and now have 4.5.4 BASIC running and have formatted two drives. QUESTION: If I start populating these drives now, can I simply swap flash drives, boot up the PRO and all data will be in place ready to continue my transfer process? TIA!
June 12, 201016 yr nOOb alert... (you have been warned) Okay, I ordered my PRO UnRAID Flash drive yesterday but all my hardware arrived today. I hammered everything together and I downloaded the BASIC version, pureed it onto a spare flash drive and now have 4.5.4 BASIC running and have formatted two drives. QUESTION: If I start populating these drives now, can I simply swap flash drives, boot up the PRO and all data will be in place ready to continue my transfer process? TIA! You'll just need to copy the config folder from the old flash drive to the new flash drive. Joe L.
June 12, 201016 yr Author You'll just need to copy the config folder from the old flash drive to the new flash drive. Joe L. I don't care about the actual UnRAID settings, just the raw data on the hard drives. No parity drive enabled as I have 8TB to transfer. Do I still need to copy the config folder?
June 12, 201016 yr If you want to keep your shares, then yes. Otherwise, no. Just make sure that none of your data-filled disks show up as unformatted when you first boot up the new server. If they do, seek help here.
June 13, 201016 yr Author If you want to keep your shares, then yes. Otherwise, no. Just make sure that none of your data-filled disks show up as unformatted when you first boot up the new server. If they do, seek help here. Received my PRO flash yesterday, swapped it in as-is and booted up as a "new" install. I added the existing drives to the array and all contents were preserved! Whew!
June 14, 201016 yr I added the existing drives to the array and all contents were preserved! Whew! Good. unRAID won't clobber the data on any drives that it recognizes (any drive that was originally formatted by unRAID or Joe L's preclear script). Having a drive formatted as Reiser FS isn't enough, it has to be formatted exactly as unRAID would have formatted it. unRAID will see any other type of formatting as foreign and offer to clear the drive (meaning erase all the data off of it).
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