UnRaid HELP

Ncble · 29 Nov 2017 at 08:15

New to unraid, ive had it installed for about a month now on a microserver Gen8.
Was all running fine. i had it installed from a USB. Anyway Some how the USB has
gone missing and when i reset my power i seem to have lost everything. had about 4tb
of data on my drives. Ive tried to start again with a new Bootable USB. However unraid
is asking me to start afresh and assign my drives again. I dont have a clue whats going on
or if ive lost my data. Hoping for some advise?

Thanks.

nox_uk · 29 Nov 2017 at 09:05

Next time put the usb on the internal usb header

From my understanding, your data will be fine, just install unraid onto another USB and boot up again.

Ncble · 29 Nov 2017 at 09:50

Yeah that might be a good idea. Yeah that is what i have done, now it has taken me to the initial setup and is asking me to assign my
drives. Didn't want to go any further just in case i make things worse lol.

Ncble · 29 Nov 2017 at 19:08

if i re-assign my devices will that wipe the drives or will the files that were on the drives be accessible again ???

neodude · 29 Nov 2017 at 21:17

You should be able to just reassign the drives and your data will show. There will be a warning before any formatting takes place.

As above, use an internal USB header in future. Also might be worth installing the 'CA Backup / Restore Appdata' plugin which you can set to automatically back up your USB drive at regular intervals.

(Oh and that was "advice", not "advise"

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neodude · 29 Nov 2017 at 21:19

You'll need to remember to assign your parity drive to the correct slot though.

Steveocee · 30 Nov 2017 at 07:54

I’ll be the one to say it as well. Also ensure you have a backup solution in place if the data is wanted/needed/critical.

ecksmen · 7 Dec 2017 at 06:52

You'll need to generate a new Key, as the hardware code of the USB will have changed, they let you do that for free once every 12 months period. I lost two USB drives and they wouldn't replace it again, decided at that point unraid wasn't for me. Don't see the point in having my data safe if usb failure costs me licensing. Moved over to snapraid.

BillHicksRIP · 8 Dec 2017 at 15:47

neodude said:
Also might be worth installing the 'CA Backup / Restore Appdata' plugin which you can set to automatically back up your USB drive at regular intervals.

Ahem, had that plugin installed but not configured. That has now been rectified. Thanks for the heads-up on that.

4Qman · 10 Dec 2017 at 07:17

ecksmen said:
You'll need to generate a new Key, as the hardware code of the USB will have changed, they let you do that for free once every 12 months period. I lost two USB drives and they wouldn't replace it again, decided at that point unraid wasn't for me. Don't see the point in having my data safe if usb failure costs me licensing. Moved over to snapraid.

That' a real shame, Unraid is an amazing platform.

But you can see why, although it has a massive community they can't afford to loose registration fees. (not implying you was passing them on). They need to implement these safeguards or the net would be flooded with keys and it would jeprodise its future.