TX-Boiler

Hey everyone. As part of my backup strategy, I backup unreplaceable files (documents, family photos & videos) from Unraid to an external drive that I keep at my office and sync with new/altered files a few times a year. Previously, I was using the Duplicati docker to create encrypted backup files on an NTFS-formatted HDD. But, based on some reading, I became leery of relying on Duplicati for my critical backup needs (I also use it to create encrypted backups to OneDrive). So I replaced the NTFS-formatted HDD for an external NVME drive formatted (using UnRaid) as BTRFS-encrypted and copied files directly to it. This had the desired effect, UnRaid can mount the drive without issue and read the files, but a Windows machine doesn't even see the drive when plugged in. It's not that I don't trust my fellow coworkers, but it's good to know that the drive itself is not readily accessible by common means - I don't think anyone I work with is even familiar with Linux much less Linux filesystems. But it does raise a question for me. What if, for whatever reason, UnRaid is unavailable to me? Am I still able to mount this drive using other distributions, say Mint or Ubuntu? I'm not deep into Linux, I've only played around with Ubuntu and Mint to see what they were about, but haven't really touched them for years. Any way for Windows to mount BTRFS-encrypted, even in read-only? I think Unraid being unavailable is extremely unlikely, but in a real black swan event, are there other options to read this drive? Thank for any replies/comments.

Sure enough, that did the trick. Thanks. I just made a small contribution to your retirement to show my appreciation.

I'm at a loss on this, my external Seagate drive that I use for backup will no longer show the option to have it mounted. It worked fine about a month ago. Now all it shows is a "no" symbol (circle w/line through it) followed by Array. Something funny is that Seagate_Expansion_Drive partition is the primary partition, it should be showing up as essentially 8TB in size, but that's no the case right now. I've tried: *Another USB drive which works fine, and allows me to mount it as an unassigned disk. *Connecting the Seagate drive to a Windows machine and it works fine *Different USB ports on the Unraid machine I haven't tried a reboot yet, but figured since other drives appear to be working, I don't think a reboot is the solution. Plus I like seeing that big uptime number Anything else I can try?

I previously used Acronis True Image, but after a few months, it seemed like its scheduler would stop working and I'd have to go in and redo it. It worked well when it worked, but eventually the annoyances got to me. I now use Macrium Reflect, the free version does everything I need. But I think the free version only does drive imaging - I believe you need to pay for the Home version if you want to backup files/folders. Macrium has been very stable for me, no problems with the scheduler. I also setup NextCloud to automatically sync my Desktop Documents to the Unraid server. Any documents I change or add are instantly copied over to the server. That's been enough to give me peace of mind.

I'm relatively new to UnRaid but I've been really enjoying it. I think I started with version 6.7.2 and had upgraded to 6.8.1 (using the WebUI) with no problems. However, in this most recent upgrade from 6.8.1 to 6.8.2, I hit reboot and the system rebooted, but the array never started and it doesn't look like UnRaid ever really started - the WebUI/array never became accessible. I connected a local display and there was a Kernel Panic error. I used the power button to shut the computer down and turn it back on. This time everything seemed to come up OK - no kernel panic and everything is accessible. - The Parity check completed with zero errors - The WebUI currently shows I'm running 6.8.2 and I'm up-to-date - No operational issues and I'm running BTRFS scrubs (all array drives are BTRFS) just to make sure, but I don't have any reason to suspect data integrity issues. Is there anything else I need to check or confirm? I'm assuming this was a one-off event that a hard shutdown fixed, but being unfamiliar with UnRaid want to see if there's anything else I should look into. Thanks.