I sort of lost the flash drive where I had unRAID among a handful of identical flash drives, even same capacity. A while back I copied the contents of the drive to my computer and that backs to another server, I have the key somewhere and I have the flash drive but I don't know which is it--also--I wiped it in an emergency--so all of these drives have something like ESXi or Fedora on them.

 

I already changed my key to a different flash drive in the past (which I still have, right in front of me) and I don't think it's been a year since that happened. Furthermore, this all came about because a hypervisor/network restructuring that took down among many thing my email server; I think it is still offline so even if I could change it again already, I might not have a working email server* to receive the key.

 

If I create a bunch of unRAID copies and add my key to each to test which works, could the consecutive failures of different drives with my key get it banned? If so what's a safe number to try before I should stop. I'm such a scatterbrain that retrying the same wrong drive several times is practically a given so I need to prepare, mark them, align them like a kindergartener or something. :/

 

Thanks.

 

*: it is working and powered on, it's just not properly routed.

Note to self: I need to get the font of this board, it's a business sans serif but not boring. :)

11 minutes ago, vitaprimo said:

If I create a bunch of unRAID copies and add my key to each to test which works, could the consecutive failures of different drives with my key get it banned?

no

Thanks! As is turns out the backup I had was for the original key. 😂 The drive is now blacklisted. I recovered my email server and sent an email to support, hopefully I can get it back. If not there's always Fedora. :)

 

Thanks for answering.