USB Drive fails to boot unraid after period of non use

[Snorf]

Hi everyone, and thanks for looking. 

 

To make a long story short.

 

1.   Bought Pro Key and installed a bunch of drives to play around. (June 2019)

2.  Started to get things ironed out and figuring out what to do, but shutdown and unplugged unraid server and went on 7 month trip.

3.  Wuhan happened and came home early.

4.  Tried to fire up unraid many times and it just hangs during a part of the boot sequence from the USB drive.

5.  Installed trial on a USB I had around and tried to boot and it worked!

6.  Shutdown server and plugged the original USB into my Windows computer and it saw everything so I copied it all into a folder on the computer in case it totally dies.

 

This is where things get tricky for me.   I was running 6.7.2.  I have a bunch of drives in there that are all the same so I do not know which one or ones are parity.  I know the 2 ssd's are my cache but that is it.  Since I have all the files from my original USB copied can I figure out which drives are what or copy some of the files onto a new USB so everything is back to normal?  I do not have the unraid made zip backup of the usb and cannot really make one unless I know how unraid makes the zip backup?

 

Any suggestions and help would be awesome.

 

Cheers

 

[JorgeB]

First thing to try is redoing the original flash drive, backup config folder, re-create flash and restore config folder, if that still doesn't work, restore the config folder to a new flash drive and transfer the key.

[Snorf]

Excellent, so let me get this straight.

 

1.   Reload 6.7.2 onto my original flash drive.

2.  Copy the entire old config folder over to the newly created flash drive.

3.  Try to reboot the unraid server with this flash drive.

 

Where do I download the installer for version 6.7.2???

 

Thanks!

 

 

[JorgeB]

You can use latest release.

[Snorf]

I have reformatted and cleaned my USB drive many times and tried to load UNRAID on it and the installer just hangs at "syncing file system.....". 

 

Went to this post:

 

Stuck my USB drive in my laptop and ran the installer and it worked!  Yeah!

 

Copied my config folder and other folders back onto the USB and the UNRAID server fired right up back to where I was when I left only at the newest stable version 6.8.3.

 

Thank you for all the help.  No idea why the USB would go bad just sitting there.

 

Do you think I should get another new USB drive and replace this one?

 

Cheers!

 

 

[JorgeB]

14 hours ago, Snorf said:

Do you think I should get another new USB drive and replace this one?

Not if it's currently working, just make sure to always have an updated flash backup, it's very easy to replace the key if it really fails.