Maximus01701

Just got this done today. Worked great thanks! As a note for anyone who finds this, you can also download your license file if you have UNRAID connect set up.

As the title says. I set up a completely new server using another USB w/ a trail of UNRAID. Id like to pull the thumb drive out of the old server, back it up, reset it, put on new server's config on it (Using the old server's registration). What's the best way to do that? Do just that, but just copy/past the new server's config onto it? I don't want to "transfer" the serials to the new USB, as I've already done that this year (I thought the USB was dieing). Thanks

I would also love the ability for multiple arrays. For me the want for NVME fast storage. I could have a small super fast array with parity, then a 2nd slower array with spinning disks. If I add an NVME drive to a normal array it's only going o be as fast as the slow parity disk. And I don't want to deal with RAID and cache pools, or cache pools and backup.

So i'm looking to move unraid (FS03) to a completely new server (FS04) and am wondering the best way to do that. I just upgraded the thumb drive this month (so keep that in mind when offering options). I'd like to have both servers (FS03 and FS04) up and running. So I can configure the new server (FS04) referencing (FS03) while I do so. Thumbdrive A - Pro Account Thumbdrive B - Trial Account Should I do the 30 day trail on (Thumb Drive B) for (FS04) and configure it. Then once i'm done with all that, take (Thumb Drive A) from (FS03) delete everything from it and past (Thumb Drive B)'s (FS04)'s content onto it? Is that the best way? From my understanding the trial version has NO LIMITATIONS (other than the 30 days). So I shouldn't run into any "feature" issues. Now, let's say i'm not able to do this in the 30 days and the trail period then expires... Id then have to buy a new thumb drive (since the GUID is linked to (Thumb Drive B) ) and pick up where i left off? Or would the trail not allow wheat i've already configured. Or - Upgrade the trail to a basic $50 "Starter" license and finish what i was doing (FS04 less than 6 drives). If i go this route, can I then take (Thumb Drive B with "starter" license) and stick it in (FS03)? granted it's got more than 6 drives but I could still look at some settings maybe? Also, what does "Attach up to 6 storage devices" mean? Is that just for the array or any and all drives? FS03 has 6 disks with an additional 2 in parity, 2 Cache drives, and 14 other drives not really being used. Thanks all!

So it errored out again... I then upped it to 10GiB - Thinking maybe there are some larger files in there; and got another error. I even looked and the file and it was 4.2GiB.

Ahhh, it was set to "0". I then looked into it and saw/skimmed your other post. https://forums.unraid.net/topic/123357-do-not-allow-minimum-free-space-to-be-0/ Yea, I think having the default not be "0" might be a good idea... (Unless i changed it from default by mistake). But, I just changed it to 5,000,000,000 (5GB) and tried the transfer again. If it all works, i will come back and "Mark as Solution". - Thanks again.

So i'm trying to transfer a lot of files from an external drive. The drive is plugged into the server via USB and mounted. I am using Krusader (open to other suggestions, but i've used that for years and it seems to work well) to transfer data from "Unraid_Unassigned" to "Archive" share which is set to "Yes : Cache". However the cache is filling up and causing the transfer to fail. Isn't it suppose to switch over writing to the array instead of the cache pool? Or is it not doing that because the files are "in use" during the transfer? About the data: - Bunch of files (not a single large file or anything) - I have selected about 58 folder and "dragged" them to the "archives" share. (It's a bunch of individual folders instead of one big folder). - Would it still do this if i did SMB? - Just looking for clarification on how it all works. I mean, it seems like a bad design if i have to go in and change the cache every time i need to transfer large quantities of data.. - Thanks!!

Just set this up. Had some issues but this helped.

My apologies. Just did that and it seems to have worked! I'm uploading the diags just in case. I'm assuming i would run a parity check now. Any reason why this may have happened as well as why the name converted back? Was i on the right track with possible some bad RAM with "socket-memory-error-trigger" error i got? fs03-syslog-20240722-1816.zip

I did as you said. It it seems to work... in that if i browse the share via network i see the files again.. however it's saying I have two.. but one is encrypted... That was never the case... I've also posted the diags. fs03-syslog-20240722-1758.zip

Sure thing. I did the command for both drives: root@FS03:~# btrfs fi usage -T /mnt/disks/130863404374 Overall: Device size: 335.36GiB Device allocated: 168.06GiB Device unallocated: 167.30GiB Device missing: 0.00B Used: 164.40GiB Free (estimated): 84.57GiB (min: 84.57GiB) Free (statfs, df): 28.68GiB Data ratio: 2.00 Metadata ratio: 2.00 Global reserve: 71.52MiB (used: 0.00B) Multiple profiles: no Data Metadata System Id Path RAID1 RAID1 RAID1 Unallocated -- --------- -------- --------- -------- ----------- 1 /dev/sdg1 83.00GiB 1.00GiB 32.00MiB 139.54GiB 2 /dev/sdd1 83.00GiB 1.00GiB 32.00MiB 27.76GiB -- --------- -------- --------- -------- ----------- Total 83.00GiB 1.00GiB 32.00MiB 167.30GiB Used 82.08GiB 126.38MiB 16.00KiB root@FS03:~# btrfs fi usage -T /mnt/disks/GS01104611200063 Overall: Device size: 335.36GiB Device allocated: 168.06GiB Device unallocated: 167.30GiB Device missing: 0.00B Used: 164.40GiB Free (estimated): 84.57GiB (min: 84.57GiB) Free (statfs, df): 28.68GiB Data ratio: 2.00 Metadata ratio: 2.00 Global reserve: 71.52MiB (used: 0.00B) Multiple profiles: no Data Metadata System Id Path RAID1 RAID1 RAID1 Unallocated -- --------- -------- --------- -------- ----------- 1 /dev/sdg1 83.00GiB 1.00GiB 32.00MiB 139.54GiB 2 /dev/sdd1 83.00GiB 1.00GiB 32.00MiB 27.76GiB -- --------- -------- --------- -------- ----------- Total 83.00GiB 1.00GiB 32.00MiB 167.30GiB Used 82.08GiB 126.38MiB 16.00KiB

I click mount for the two drives. It gives me the error above (FAIL). But it shows this and i click the GS01104.....(Link in blue) and browse a file structure. I assumed that what i was browsing was the contents on the pool... but you're leading me to believe that's not the case.

Sorry I may have misunderstood what i was doing. After manually mounting them by clicking the "Browse Disk Share". Is how to though i was looking at the contents. EDIT: If i browse the share normally the "Domains" folder is empty. However if i do it in the way i mentioned above the two ISOs are in there.

When you say "mount the pool" are you saying just clicking "Mount" on both of those drives? If so I get an error mounting, below: Here are the results to "btrfs fi usage -T /mnt/disks/UD_name" "ERROR: cannot access '/mnt/disks/UD_name': No such file or directory" Thanks for taking the time to help me with this!

Followed a space invader tutorial years ago, but yea i think it was btrfs and yes a pool of two drives. I can brows it on the drives if i try.

root@FS03:~# btrfs fi show Label: none uuid: 1b2ced61-3ee5-49ad-9483-d58fbbebb4fe Total devices 1 FS bytes used 4.75GiB devid 1 size 20.00GiB used 9.02GiB path /dev/loop2 Label: none uuid: 42c6961b-3645-43da-be51-f48e394a8897 Total devices 1 FS bytes used 712.00KiB devid 1 size 1.00GiB used 126.38MiB path /dev/loop3

Been working on standing up a new VM, and noticed after a restart the "domain" folder was empty where i was keeping the Vm image. I thought maybe i was crazy and saved it elsewhere so i set it up again. After a few hours I noticed some bad performance issues on the server (Not the VM). So i took a look at the active log, and saw some mcelog: Fallback Socket Memory error and mcelog: running trigger "socket-memory-error-trigger" (I have screen shots of that). So i thought maybe i was having some memory issues... so i tried to run memtest, but was unable to get it to boot from any USB drive i have... So just booted back into Unraid and noticed my unraid name reverted back to "TOWER" as well as the files again missing from the "Domains" share. I then noticed my cache pool of two SSDs were offline, and tried to mount them with "fail" error. I was however able to brows them and it looks like the "domains" files are there... I shut the system down and took a look inside and tried to "re-seat" them with no luck... They are on their own power rail then the rest of the drives... so maybe that rail is bad... I can put a voltmeter on it.. but wanted to come here and ask some next steps before i mess anything up. Also for waterer reason i changed the name back to FS03... I've uploaded the log files. -Thanks! fs03-diagnostics-20240721-1744.zip

Yes, two disks are disabled the Parity 2 and Disk 1. I'm running SMART tests on them now. But if all looks "fine" what's the next step in bringing them back online from "disabled"? Stop array> Take the drives out of the "config" by setting them to "NO Device" > Start Array > Stop Array > Put drives back into "config" > Start Array > Rebuild Array Am I thinking that correctly?

What are some next steps you think? I kinda just want to "reset" it and see if it happens again. I plan on building a new server in the next year or so. So I don't want to put too much time/resources into this one. Just need it to last me until then.

I woke up this morning to what looks like a bunch of errors.. I tried to stop the array but it seems to be hanging. I Then tried to shut it down to restart it but also seems to be hanging. So i grabbed the diagnostic files an am going to post them here. I've delt with a few situation similar to this a few times now, but always tried to just tackle it myself and always caused more work in the end. So just going to post up the logs and get some guidance. (I did Tools>Diagnostics>zip file). Let me know if you need something else. fs03-diagnostics-20240326-1033.zip

Yes, it worked and was doing fin until about 75% of the rebuild where both drives became unmountable again. So I then did it all over again and it worked... so running a parity check on it now.

Welp... I take that all back... I was running the rebuild and both drives became "unmountable: Wrong or no file system". again... Not sure what to try next... I thought i fixed it.

Thanks for getting back. I followed the instructions and got the "Mount disk, then unmount it. If it doesn't work then use "-L" tag note." However your link didn't mention how to mount the drive. So I'm putting it in here for the next guy. I followed space invaders 4 year old video. In terminal mkdir /tempxfs (Creates a temp folder to mount to) mount /dev/mdX (x being your drive letter). umount /tempxfs rmdir /tempxfs (Delete the temp folder we just created) run the XFS repair again. Start the array to see if it worked. You may still have "Drive disabled" with a little red X. To fix this: - Stop array (take note of drive configuration) - Select "no device" for effected drive(s). - Start array (Should now say "not installed") - Stop array and add the EXACT disk back in. - Start array which will then initiate a rebuild.

Hello, The server has been off for a few months. I fired it up with no issues until a few hours later where where drive 1 became "unmountable: Wrong or no file system" I then tried to run parity sync thinking that may have helped then Disk 4 became "unmountable: Wrong or no file system". My question is... I have spare drives, can I just swap them? When I say "swap" I mean: shut down array, change disk 1 and 4 to another "Unassigned device", start the array formatting the new drives and rebuilding? - Thanks,

Sorry to bring up an old thread, but will this effect any Timemachine stuff?