From the support page:
The first boot will take about 5 minutes. After that, umbrelOS will automatically detect the connected external drive and auto-import all your data. You can visit http://umbrel.local on any device connected to the same network to monitor the data import (migration) process.
What can I do if the automatic import process isn’t starting? The backup disk is correctly mounted, but nothing is happening.
Hey @strumi. Can you share a little more on what you’re seeing when you visit http://umbrel.local in the browser?
Oh that’s not good - I guess you’ve already tried restarting the device with the external drive connected to the USB port, and it still isn’t importing?
If so, it’s hard to tell why right - we’ll need to take a look into your logs. Feel free to ssh in (umbrel@umbrel.local, password: umbrel), and run:
sudo journalctl | sudo tee /usr/local/lib/node_modules/umbreld/ui/log.txt > /dev/null
It will ask you for your login password - type umbrel (since there’s no user account yet), and press Enter. Then open http://umbrel.local/log.txt and save the file, and please share it here.
Also, in the meantime, you can also chose to inspect the contents of your external drive (note that it’s a bit risky, since you don’t wanna be accidentally deleting something on it). It should have a directory called umbrel with all of your previous data.
/dev/sda4 1.8T 716M 1.7T 1% /data
/dev/sdb1 1.8T 1.1T 686G 61% /mnt/sdb1
umbrel@umbrel:~$ ls -lart /mnt/sdb1/umbrel/ | head -5
total 140
-rw-r–r-- 1 umbrel umbrel 2563 Dec 13 2022 SECURITY.md
-rw-r–r-- 1 umbrel umbrel 8458 Dec 13 2022 README.md
-rw-r–r-- 1 umbrel umbrel 4798 Dec 13 2022 LICENSE.md
-rw-r–r-- 1 umbrel umbrel 3940 Dec 13 2022 CONTRIBUTING.md
log.txt (416.2 KB)
Yes, I’ve already tried restarting the device with the external drive connected to the USB port, and it still isn’t importing nothing.
Thanks!
log2.txt (162.7 KB)
Reinstalled from scratch, same problem, see attachment
I have the same issue after installing on Linux x86 system.
I solved it by following the suggestions in this thread.