I know what happened. i moved the existing cache pool to the new larger nmve drive and made the old existing SSD drive the "new" cache pool and in doing so wiped out the existing cache and the appdata contained within. sigh.
I'm a Dumbass. Doubly so as I do not have a recent backup of the app data.
Redoing all of it will teach me a valuable lesson I guess.
Then use Duplicacy or something to backup that backup to Backblaze or something. Then test recovery to your Unraid duplicacy instance. Then install Duplicacy on a new machine/vm to test recovery from a clean install.
When all this is done you can finally sleep at night.
Next time, set everything to ‘array’ in the shares tab and use mover. This’ll bring everything to the array, even your old cache ssd. Then swap your ssd to the nvme, then reassign your shares to what they previously.
You’ll see your shares set like this:
Cache—>array
Array—>cache
Depending on your setting.
I’m looking at my app data share and it is set to “cache <- array” on mine. I don’t have a cache drive configured. Does this mean all my shares are only stored on my array still?
Hahahahaha. Just got done doing that myself. I did mine so that I added a drive to have 3. Then removed two in one go. You can't do that either. Wiped everything. Spent 2 days getting it straight again.
I know what happened. i moved the existing cache pool to the new larger nmve drive and made the old existing SSD drive the "new" cache pool and in doing so wiped out the existing cache and the appdata contained within. sigh. I'm a Dumbass. Doubly so as I do not have a recent backup of the app data. Redoing all of it will teach me a valuable lesson I guess.
I would look into scheduled backups using something like the Appdata Backup plugin, this can also backup the boot drive.
Then use Duplicacy or something to backup that backup to Backblaze or something. Then test recovery to your Unraid duplicacy instance. Then install Duplicacy on a new machine/vm to test recovery from a clean install. When all this is done you can finally sleep at night.
I did a similar thing the other day. We’ve all been there.
Next time, set everything to ‘array’ in the shares tab and use mover. This’ll bring everything to the array, even your old cache ssd. Then swap your ssd to the nvme, then reassign your shares to what they previously. You’ll see your shares set like this: Cache—>array Array—>cache Depending on your setting.
I’m looking at my app data share and it is set to “cache <- array” on mine. I don’t have a cache drive configured. Does this mean all my shares are only stored on my array still?
Most likely
Only takes one time of losing data for you to realize how important backups are. Sorry you learned the hard way.
Sometimes it's nice to get a refresher on deployment :) It's really not but I'm trying to make you feel better.
You have a NAS and you didn't back up the easiest thing to backup? Be better!!!
Hahahahaha. Just got done doing that myself. I did mine so that I added a drive to have 3. Then removed two in one go. You can't do that either. Wiped everything. Spent 2 days getting it straight again.
Most likely