midofru

Thanks testdasi for the input. I'll have to see how adventurous I want to get once I've finished my obsessive tweaking of everything else. I think I could grow old reading about plugins to solve needs I hadn't even anticipated having yet!

Hi -- I'm very new to Unraid (about a month in). I have a simple config with a j5005-asrock/8GB ram and 3x 4TB HDs in a Node 304 with one parity drive (I'm going for silence and power efficiency). I've been basically aggregating everything I have onto it as a one-stop shop for content, with an external USB via unassigned devices to backup to and an online backup to CrashplanPro via docker. I would like to also pull in all of my content from online providers that I can so that if they go away or make a mistake (or I do) I still have the content. I'm looking at rclone to pull in cloud storage like Google Drive, Box, and Dropbox and suspect that will work fine. But I would also like to capture other online content esp. Google (esp. Gmail/contacts) and Facebook content .. and possibly others if there's an option (e.g. MS Exchange). Are there any tools for doing that? I know I can manually use Google Takeout and that Facebook has a data downloader, so I can manually grab it periodically, but I would love to automate these things. Does anyone have any recommendations/ know of a tool that I failed to find in Googling to suggest -- or know why this is a fool's errand and I should let it go? I know I could setup a VM and automate a cludge to do it (or in the case of Exchange have Outlook keep an OST and/archive to .PST), but I don't know that setting up and maintaining something like that is better than just doing it manually periodically. Thanks

These are additional notes in line with tr3bjockey's observations, and expanding on what I think the failing mechanism is. 16gb USB2 data traveler by Kingston, stuck on synching. While I was waiting I plugged in another already configured UNRAID usb flash drive to look at the file structure -- and the flash drive creator tool immediate saw the old already named and configured UNRAID flash drive appear and overwrote it with a new installation (this was disappointing as it had been the configured installation of a trial). I removed my old UNRAID flash drive that had just been overwritten by the creator utility, and tried running the creator utility again. It again hung on synching, so I tried renaming the flash drive UNRAID (it was called something generic like "USB Drive") and the utility immediately saw it and completed. So .. it appears that the flash drive creator is programmed to rename the flash drive to UNRAID and then to continue working on whatever drive is called UNRAID. For some drives, perhaps some that don't have a name it understands, it fails to rename it and therefore waits forever for an UNRAID drive to appear --- unless you rename it yourself. Also -- It gave my 16gb drive a single partition of 8gb. My understanding is that this doesn't really matter as the space needs are unlikely to exceed a few megabytes, but it is still disappointing. I would imagine doing a manual install would fix this as well. The irony is that I chose this drive as I believed it was one of annointed (recommended) ones. I could have had a larger and faster (USB3) drive for about the same price, but I was trying to play it safe. Hopefully it will be rock solid going forward. I'm hoping the metal construction and its size (small but not too small) will mean it won't get too hot or burn out early.