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  1. I am preparing to move my current unRaid server to a new configuration as it is several years old now. I would like to replace the flash drive and conventional wisdom tells me to wait until everything is up and running well with the new configuration before doing so. So my question is this: what is the proper way to replace the flash drive? I assume I need to move a current backup of the current flash drive to the new one, but is there a registration process involved too? Also is there a guide for moving an unRaid server to new hardware?
  2. I have a configuration using an Intel Core i7-12700K Alder Lake CPU with an ASUS Z690-P Prime DDR5 motherboard. I am just getting ready to move my old unRaid server to this configuration. Seeing the posts about Alder Lake still floating around, am I making a mistake moving my unRaid to this configuration? Should I also invest in a Nvidia GPU to avoid problems?
  3. I still have 3 Reiserfs data drives that need to be converted to XFS. Does anyone know what the unRaid OS version is targeted to remove support for Reiserfs completely?
  4. Thanks for this catch! I will add this to my procedure. I was really hoping to only keep my Plex docker running during the conversion. Can I disable mover during this time? Yes I am aware of the drive numbers needing to change for each iteration but I like your idea of listing them out and crossing them off as I go through it. I will likely use the console. I am not an unRAID/Linux expert so I'm not sure what screen mode is. The 12TB will need to be removed as I don't have enough slots for another drive and I have a new 22TB to add in to replace the Parity 2 drive. You've been very helpful. I appreciate it! Dale
  5. I was hoping someone could validate my understand of this process. Does caching need to be turned off before rsyncing files? Does parity get affected by the format of the disk? i.e. when swapping an reiserfs for an xfs, why doesn't this affect parity?
  6. I am preparing to convert my reiserfs drives to xfs and I've been over the recommended procedure for doing this. If the group could indulge me, I would like to show my procedure, adapted from the one on this forum, to see if I have this down correctly. I have the steps outlined in the attached pdf along with my current array configuration. Converting REISERFS to XFS.pdf
  7. Thanks for the response. My willingness to give up parity 2 was out of necessity, at least it was my understanding that parity 2 would be invalid if the disk position were changed. Mainly I want to know if I copy a disk from the array to UD (reiserfs drive is 14TB and current parity 2 drive is 18TB), can I add that disk (18TB) to the array while deleting the original source disk (14TB). I will have a new disk to add as the replacement parity 2 drive which will be the same size as the main parity drive.
  8. Thanks JonathanM, This is very helpful. I am still trying to decide which of the scenarios apply to my case. I am leaning toward eliminating both parity drives, but I am not sure as to the difference between "Share based no inclusions" and "Share based with inclusions". I thought I could start with moving the current parity 2 drive to UD, formatting it as XFS, use Rsync to copy the larges reiserfs data drive to the new XFS drive and wrap up with deleting the old reiserfs drive from the array and adding the new XFS drive to the array (not swapping reiserfs for XFS). Would this not work? and can I just build the parity drive from scratch?
  9. Hi JonathanM, I've been looking but maybe I'm not looking in the right place. The instructions I find all say to shutdown the Dockers during the transfer and I really can't keep them down that long. Also looking to verify if parity rebuild will start automatically if I remove a data drive and add a new data drive to the array.
  10. I have 3 drives that are still reiserfs and need to convert to xfs. My primary parity drive is 22TB (sdg) and second parity is 18TB (sdc). No data drive is larger than 18TB. My preference is to leave the dockers running while making the conversion. I would like for some feedback on the approach to convert the drives: 1. Take the second parity disk (18TB) offline and move to Unassigned Devices. 2. Format this drive for xfs. 3. rcopy the largest data drive (14TB) known as sdb to the newly formatted xfs drive in UD. 4. After the rcopy completes, shutdown the dockers long enough to the rcopy again to verify any changes are transferred to the new xfs drive. 5. Shutdown the array and add the new xsf drive to the array and remove the sdb drive from the array. 6. Restart the array. Parity should rebuild. (?) 7. Restart the dockers 8. Do same procedure for the remaining reiserfs drives using the drive left behind in UD as the target drive for rcopy. I am not very familiar with rcopy so if someone could provide the correct command syntax I would appreciate it. Thank you, Dale
  11. Thanks apandey, I thought that might be the case but I was concerned about something I read regarding parity2 (implying it was position dependent). Maybe it was referring to your point that the drives are in the same slots as shown in the unraid UI. I do plan to reuse the same usb. In the new system, there will be an NVMe drive that I plan to use in addition to the 1TB Samsung existing cache drive. When I bring up the new configuration I expect the existing cache drive will show up on the UI and the new NVMe drive will show as an unassigned drive. I can add that later to my cache pool.
  12. I am going to move my unraid server to a new Intel Core i7-12700K Alder Lake system and ASUS X690-R Prime motherboard. I have 2 parity drives, 4 array drives (3 reiserfs/1 xfs), and a 1TB Samsung SSD (cache). Anything I need to do to move the drives to the new hardware? Do I need to keep the cable and drive assignments the same? Will it affect the second parity drive?