Have been running my main box off the same USB for a couple of years without issue. Decided to not boot again after restarting today… wouldn’t even show up on another machine.
I’ve never had one fail on me so it was a new experience. Didn’t like having to log my box into lime-tech but it seems it was required. At least the license exchange went someone easily and then it decided it had to do a parity check so I’m offline for even longer. Thankfully I had a backup of the USB from only a few days prior… good lesson right here!
Yup and make sure you keep a backup on a separate machine. I used to just keep flash backups on the array with the rest of my stuff. You can still get to it without unraid mounting the main file system but it’s another level of annoyance you don’t need when your system is down.
I don’t really mind the system contacting unraid mothership. It’s a way to prevent pirates and sneaky types from ruining it for all of us paying users. Maybe when they stop doing that, license management gets easier.
