z0ki Posted September 16, 2019 Share Posted September 16, 2019 My new sandisk flash drive is totally dead. So I am wondering what is the best action for me now going forward? I am going to go to the retailer and swap it over for a new one shortly I was still under a trial period, if I make a new unRaid flash drive will I then lose all my data on my drives? Quote Link to comment
Frank1940 Posted September 16, 2019 Share Posted September 16, 2019 No, you will not lose your data. Did you make a backup of your flash drive? Did you have single or dual parity? Did you have a cache drive or a cache array? Did you make a printout or screen capture of the drive assignment for the drives in the array? Quote Link to comment
z0ki Posted September 16, 2019 Author Share Posted September 16, 2019 Did you make a backup of your flash drive? No unfortunately I did not. Did you have single or dual parity? No parity drives yet, I was going to add a parity later. But I do have backups elsewhere anyhow. Did you have a cache drive? Yes I have one cache drive Did you make a printout or screen capture of the drive assignment for the drives in the array? Yes I do! Quote Link to comment
Frank1940 Posted September 16, 2019 Share Posted September 16, 2019 (edited) See here for directions: You have a lot more information than a lot of folks do. No parity and a printout of your drive assignments. Just skip instructions on dealing with those problems. (Personally, I always make a printout of the instructions of anything that I am going. Read them carefully, cross out anything that I don't have to do, Finally, I do what is left and checkoff each step as I do it.) You will, of course, have to get a new trial license somewhere along the way... To make a backup of your flash drive. Main >>> Boot Device click on 'Flash' under the "Device" column. Look for Flash Device Settings tab/section. Click on the 'FLASH BACKUP' button. Edited September 16, 2019 by Frank1940 Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted September 16, 2019 Share Posted September 16, 2019 2 hours ago, Frank1940 said: To make a backup of your flash drive. Main >>> Boot Device click on 'Flash' under the "Device" column. Look for Flash Device Settings tab/section. Click on the 'FLASH BACKUP' button. And you should always get a new flash backup anytime you make any configuration changes. This is especially important when you make any changes to the disk assignments; i.e., adding, removing, replacing. Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted September 16, 2019 Share Posted September 16, 2019 Also, since you didn't have a flash backup to work from, you will have to set things up again, since your settings were on that dead flash. But the data on the disks themselves should be fine. Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted September 17, 2019 Share Posted September 17, 2019 I have split the hijacker posts into their own thread. @z0ki Did you get things working again? Quote Link to comment
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