Hello,

 

My USB device died today. I have a backup from 4/11-2018 i have restored from.

The problem is that the array had 1 parity disk and 4 data disks.

But UNRAID is not accepting the fouth data disk as a valid disk?

How do I correct that? (See attachments)

I know the data on the disk is valid, I just need to tell UNRAID its not a new disk.

 

Thank you!

 

 

DISK_ASSIGNMENTS.txt

-Tools -> New Config -> Retain current configuration: All -> Apply

-disk4 will likely need re-assigning

-check "parity is already valid" and start the array

 

If you only did what you describe parity should be 100% in sync, but it's not a bad idea to run a parity check.

Thank you very much!

That worked 😀

It can be dangerous to use a backup that has a different disk configuration than your current one. Several people have restored an old backup only to find that an old parity disk which had been moved to a data slot was being treated as parity by the old backup and so its data was getting overwritten with parity.

 

You can download a zipped copy of flash at any time from Main - Boot Device - Flash - Flash Backup.