March 14, 20188 yr Hi there, I'm currently on the trail period with a crappy, falling apart usb stick but have purchased a new micro one and was wondering what the process was to switch over to the new stick before buying a license? Cheers
March 14, 20188 yr If you want to keep your current config/setting copy the current flash drive to the new one and buy the license, you can't transfer a trial key, you can start a new trial on a different flash drive.
March 25, 20188 yr I'm in the same predicament with a running system on a trial license and needing to swap USBs before purchase. So, if I understand correctly, I just need to do a copy of the current USB to the new USB, plug in the new USB and request another trial license. Once booted, my drives and everything should be OK. Should I follow the USB Preparation steps as outlined on the Unraid wiki against the new USB stick prior to copying? Edited March 25, 20188 yr by rbm update URL link
March 25, 20188 yr 21 minutes ago, rbm said: Should I follow the USB Preparation steps as outlined on the Unraid wiki against the new USB stick prior to copying? These days it is easier to use the USB Creator tool, from the Download section and then just copy the Config folder from the old USB to the new USB
March 25, 20188 yr 7 hours ago, rbm said: I'm in the same predicament with a running system on a trial license and needing to swap USBs before purchase. So, if I understand correctly, I just need to do a copy of the current USB to the new USB, plug in the new USB and request another trial license. Once booted, my drives and everything should be OK. Should I follow the USB Preparation steps as outlined on the Unraid wiki against the new USB stick prior to copying? You can't replace a trial key, either start a new trial or buy a license for the new key and you can keep your old config.
March 25, 20188 yr Author 18 minutes ago, johnnie.black said: You can't replace a trial key, either start a new trial or buy a license for the new key and you can keep your old config. Yeah I discovered the hard way. Can't start a new trial and use an old config. The only way to swap sticks is to transfer the config over to the new stick and purchase a full license. I've had multiple problems with the btrfs cache pool so I'm holding off but that's an issue for another thread
March 25, 20188 yr 1 hour ago, ideasman said: Can't start a new trial and use an old config. Yes you can. It's just the key you can't reuse. All the other configuration can be moved - the configuration itself doesn't care if you have a trial license or a real license.
March 25, 20188 yr Yes you can. It's just the key you can't reuse. All the other configuration can be moved - the configuration itself doesn't care if you have a trial license or a real license.You can't, it's done on purpose, not possible to start a new trial with an existing config.
March 25, 20188 yr 9 minutes ago, johnnie.black said: 20 minutes ago, pwm said: Yes you can. It's just the key you can't reuse. All the other configuration can be moved - the configuration itself doesn't care if you have a trial license or a real license. You can't, it's done on purpose, not possible to start a new trial with an existing config. But it's only the super.dat file with the disks and disk state that has secret content. Networking, shares, ... are normal text files.
March 25, 20188 yr 23 minutes ago, pwm said: But it's only the super.dat file with the disks and disk state that has secret content. Networking, shares, ... are normal text files. Still it doesn't work, never tried to find why since LT did it on purpose.
March 25, 20188 yr 3 minutes ago, johnnie.black said: Still it doesn't work, never tried to find why since LT did it on purpose. Ok. Then I can go to bed having learned something new today too.
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