Help?

I was told that I could add an additional cache drive just like adding an additional pool drive. It did not seem to work. and unfortunately my appdata was stored and backed up on cache.

 

As of now I have no dockers, and it looks as though the appdata backups that the system said was on disk 3 were on cache.

is there any way to get the system to accept the original cach drive? it was not formatted.

 

Chas

 

 

12 minutes ago, kysdaddy said:

I was told that I could add an additional cache drive just like adding an additional pool drive.

You can only if current cache was btrfs, you can't with for example xfs, if it was btfs please post diags: Tools -> Diagnostics

Thanks I fixed that problem, Did some more searching and found the thread that said change slots back to 1.

 

I now need to make sure that my cache  share setting are correct.I think.

I have orange warnings on all of my shares saying that they are unprotected.

 

Chas

1 minute ago, kysdaddy said:

I have orange warnings on all of my shares saying that they are unprotected.

That's normal for any single device cache.

So how do I add additional cach. When I do an appdata backup, it is saving on cache.

I think that the Yes in cache setting is the issue but I'm not sure

 

Having Yes would initially save it to the cache, but when mover kicks in copy it to the array.

 

what you probably want to do is manually run mover to get the backup files onto the array, and when that completes change the Use Cache setting to No.

5 minutes ago, kysdaddy said:

So how do I add additional cach

You'd need to reformat current one to btrfs (after backing up current data)

thanks to both of you.

 

Chas

8 hours ago, johnnie.black said:

That's normal for any single device cache.

I have successfully added a second cache drive but still see the orange warnings?

Am I missing something?

 

Chas

45 minutes ago, kysdaddy said:

I have successfully added a second cache drive but still see the orange warnings?

Am I missing something?

Is your parity valid?

It says it is, however the last check was aborted, should I run a check?

 

Please post the diagnostics: Tools -> Diagnostics

tower-diagnostics-20200114-0706.zip

I started the parity check last night, it is still running but it does show a failed drive.

 

CHas

Disk17 is disable, so all shares on the array are currently unprotected (if another disk fails).

How do I remove that disk, there was nothing on it?

Chas

https://wiki.unraid.net/Shrink_array

 

Recommend using 1st option.

Thank you, I followed the instructions and the drives are removed, now in 17 hours, I'll see if it fixes my issues (parity rebuild 17 hrs)

Thanks again.

 

Chas