Hello,

 

I’ll start by saying, yes, this is going to be a time-costly lesson to me on backing up my flash configuration.  That said...

 

While adding a new drive to my array, the flash drive failed on reboot.  I have already reinstalled unRaid on a spare flash drive, booted, and replaced the key.  I have also (with the wealth of knowledge available in the forum) managed to manually mount each drive and determine which drive contained what.

 

I thought the CA Appdata Backup / Restore was backing up the flash drive, but cannot locate any folder/file resembling the USB flash backup.  I was able to find the folder where backups were occurring, and found backups of various dockers, vms, and libvrt.img (?), but no flash.

 

I’m assuming I’ve lost the setup and have a theory going forward on how to restore.

 

When I attempted to assign disks to their previous locations and started the array, everything assigned in a different order than desired.  What’d I’d like to do is reset the config without losing the data currently on the drives (mostly backup data, but took a very long time to get the data there).

 

So put simply, how do I set a new configuration “without” losing the data?  And how do I ensure the disks are put in the order I want them to be?

 

Thank you much in advance.

 

Em

 

p.s. Did try searching the forums, which got me as far as I could. If there IS a post that addresses my need, please kindly just post a link and I’ll read thoroughly and rebuild my array. Again, thank you.  🙂

 

15 minutes ago, minion1066 said:

I thought the CA Appdata Backup / Restore was backing up the flash drive, but cannot locate any folder/file resembling the USB flash backup.  I was able to find the folder where backups were occurring, and found backups of various dockers, vms, and libvrt.img (?), but no flash.

It only does so if you configure that option in the plugin's settings.

 

17 minutes ago, minion1066 said:

So put simply, how do I set a new configuration “without” losing the data?  And how do I ensure the disks are put in the order I want them to be?

Use Tools --> New Config to put the array back into a state where drives can be assigned.  Unraid will recognize if a drive has been previously used in Unraid and will leave the contents intact.   Make sure that you do not accidentally assign a data drive as a parity drive as that would destroy in's contents.  When you start the array the new disk assignments will be 'committed'.  At this point Unraid will start building parity based in the new disk assignments and all disks should be mounted and their data be visible.

Thank you, your advice was spot on.

 

Server back up.  Guess the unexpected outage/flash drive loss served as a spring cleaning for my server.  Dockers & vms came up after array was started, but due to some glitches, I purged the Dockers (only had 3 & nothing that was critical).  The vms retaining settings was a pleasant surprise as I had just done some major work on it prior to the outage.

 

All & all just goes to show the resiliency of unraid, I guess.  Now just need to get new usb drives (and different brand, shouldn't have failed after only 6 months, SanDisk ultrafit).

 

🙂